CVE-2002-1203

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-399

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Oct 28, 2002
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2002-1203: Medium severity, CVSS 5.0 | Vulnix