Denial of service when an attacker sends many SYN packets to create multiple connections without ever sending an ACK to complete the connection, aka SYN flood.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/136
Source: Mitre, NVD
Published: 1996-09-19
Updated: 2026-06-16
Base Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Severity: Medium
Base Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity: High
EPSS: 0.11062