CVE-2002-1663

Monkey HTTP Daemon < 0.5.1 - Denial of Service via Invalid Content-Length Header

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2002-1663. PoCs published by anonymous.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a denial of service vulnerability in Monkey HTTP server by sending a malformed POST request with an invalid Content-Length header. The server crashes when attempting to process the request, leading to a DoS condition.

Description

The Post_Method function in method.c for Monkey HTTP Daemon before 0.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a POST request with an invalid or missing Content-Length header value.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by anonymous · textdoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21981

This exploit demonstrates a denial of service vulnerability in Monkey HTTP server by sending a malformed POST request with an invalid Content-Length header. The server crashes when attempting to process the request, leading to a DoS condition.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Monkey HTTP server
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Network access to the target server
mistral-large-3 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Exploit mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-11/0023.html
Exploit, Patch vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6096
Patch third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/7449
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10529
Product x_refsource_confirm
http://monkeyd.sourceforge.net/Changelog.txt
Exploit, Patch vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1005507

Scores

EPSS 0.0399
EPSS Percentile 89.3%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (1)
monkey-project/monkey < 0.1.1
Published Dec 31, 2002
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026