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CVE-2002-1203
IBM SecureWay Firewall before 4.2.2 performs extra processing before determining that a packet is invalid and dropping it, which allows…
Medium5.0EPSS 1.7%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (3)
- 20021009 Flood ACK packets cause an IBM SecureWay FireWall DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 5924 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- secureway-tcp-flood-dos(10249) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
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