VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2002-1203

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.66%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2002-10-28
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

IBM SecureWay Firewall before 4.2.2 performs extra processing before determining that a packet is invalid and dropping it, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set.

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