CVE-2002-1203

high

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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5924

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10249.php

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103417988503398&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2002-10-28

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

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: 0.00891