# CVE-2002-1507: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can crash Unreal Tournament 2003 clients and servers by sending malformed UDP messages to specific ports.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Mar 2003
- **Updated:** 8 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-c644-mhwp-h736

## What is CVE-2002-1507?

CVE-2002-1507 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 18 Mar 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Unreal Tournament 2003 (ut2003) clients and servers allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed messages containing a small number of characters to UDP ports 7778 or 10777.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-1507?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Epic Games Unreal Tournament Server.

## How do I fix CVE-2002-1507?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-1507 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2002-1507 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-1507 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2002-1507 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2002-1507 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 18 Mar 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-1507 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2002-1507/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2002-1507/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1507
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-1507
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2002-1507

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