Vulnerability in Symantec Enterprise Firewall
CVE-2002-0990
The web proxy component in Symantec Enterprise Firewall (SEF) 6.5.2 through 7.0, Raptor Firewall 6.5 and 6.5.3, VelociRaptor, and Symantec Gateway Security allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection resource exhaustion) via multiple connection requests to domains whose DNS server is unresponsive or does not exist, which generates a long timeout.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.017 (75.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 75.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Symantec Enterprise Firewall — versions 6.5.2, 7.0
- Symantec Gateway Security — versions 5110, 5200, 5300
- Symantec Raptor Firewall — versions 6.5, 6.5.3
- Symantec Velociraptor — versions 500, 700, 1000
References
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/10364.php (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2002.10.11.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/5958 (vdb-entry)