CVE-2002-1906

Exp

The web server for Polycom ViaVideo 2.2 and 3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending incomplete HTTP requests and leaving the connections open.

Published: 2002-12-31 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2002-1906 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 7.12%, 93th percentile). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +2.00% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2002-1906

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
21939 exploit_db edb 2002-10-15 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2002-1906

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 5.12% 7.12% +2.00%
2 2025-07-27 4.17% 5.12% +0.95%
3 2025-03-30 4.17%

Full EPSS history (18 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2002-1906

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2002-1906

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2002-1906

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
polycom viavideo 2.2 cpe:2.3:h:polycom:viavideo:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
polycom viavideo 3.0 cpe:2.3:h:polycom:viavideo:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2002-1906

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