Vulnerability in Macromedia Flash Player
CVE-2002-1625
Macromedia Flash Player 6 does not terminate connections when the user leaves the web page, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth, resource, and CPU consumption) via the (1) loadMovie or (2) loadSound commands, which continue to execute until the browser is closed.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.020 (80.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 80.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Macromedia Flash Player — versions 6.0
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/4567 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8925 (vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/128491 (US Government Resource, Patch, third-party-advisory)
- www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm