Resource exhaustion in Balasys Dheater

CVE-2002-20001

The Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol allows remote attackers (from the client side) to send arbitrary numbers that are actually not public keys, and trigger expensive server-side DHE modular-exponentiation calculations, aka a D(HE)at…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.231 (97.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2002-20001?
CVE-2002-20001 is a high-severity vulnerability in Balasys Dheater, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2021-11-11.
How severe is CVE-2002-20001?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2002-20001 known to be exploited?
14 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.