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CVE-2002-0538

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0538 describes an FTP bounce vulnerability in the FTP proxy of Symantec Raptor Firewall 6.5.3 and Enterprise Firewall 7.0, as well as Symantec Gateway Security and Velociraptor. The vulnerability, rated with a CVSS score of 7.5, allows remote attackers to redirect FTP data connections to arbitrary ports due to improper rewriting of "FTP PORT" responses. This attack requires no authentication and has potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:enterprise_firewall:6.5.2:*:windows_2000_nt:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:enterprise_firewall:7.0:*:solaris:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:enterprise_firewall:7.0:*:windows_2000_nt:*:*:*:*:*
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:raptor_firewall:6.5:*:windows_nt:*:*:*:*:*
6.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:raptor_firewall:6.5.3:*:solaris:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0167 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-04/0166.html
Vendor Advisory
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-04/0224.html
securityresponse.symantec.com / avcenter/security/Content/2002.04.17.html
PatchVendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/8847.php
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/4522
PatchVendor Advisory