CVE-2002-1203 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting IBM SecureWay Firewall versions prior to 4.2.2. The flaw allows remote attackers to exhaust firewall resources by sending a flood of malformed TCP packets lacking any flags. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, leading to partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:secureway_firewall:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:secureway_firewall:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.