{"id":"CVE-2002-1109","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2002-1109","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:37:07.731Z","title":"securetar, as used in AMaViS shell script 0.2.1 and earlier, allows users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed TAR file, possibly via an incorrect file size parameter.","description":"securetar, as used in AMaViS shell script 0.2.1 and earlier, allows users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed TAR file, possibly via an incorrect file size parameter.","published":"2002-10-04T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T21:58:45.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":2.1,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["amavis/virus scanner"],"epss":{"score":0.00357,"percentile":0.29155,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.36%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=amavis-announce&m=103121272122242&w=2","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103124270321404&w=2","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10056.php","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=amavis-announce&m=103121272122242&w=2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103124270321404&w=2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10056.php","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-1109","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}