CVE-2002-0234

high

Description

NetScreen ScreenOS before 2.6.1 does not support a maximum number of concurrent sessions for a system, which allows an attacker on the trusted network to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a port scan to an external network, which consumes all available connections.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4015

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8057.php

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/254268

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101258887105690&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101258281818524&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2002-05-29

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

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

EPSS: 0.00083