Vulnerability in Sws Simple Web Server

CVE-2002-1866

Simple Web Server (SWS) 0.0.4 through 0.1.0 does not close file descriptors for 404 error messages, which could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor exhaustion) via multiple requests for pages that do not exist.

EPSS: 0.016 (72.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

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