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CVE-2007-2896

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-2896 describes a race condition vulnerability affecting Symantec Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) 6.5.3 managers and agents on Windows. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service, leading to high CPU consumption and application hangs, through specific network scans directed at ESM ports. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact, with no authentication required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit tools like Metasploit or Nuclei modules, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:enterprise_security_manager:6.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0156 is in the 48th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

osvdb.org / 35077
secunia.com / advisories/25390
PatchVendor Advisory
securityresponse.symantec.com / avcenter/security/Content/2007.05.24a.html
Patch
securityresponse.symantec.com / avcenter/security/Content/2007.05.24b.html
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/34507
securityfocus.com / bid/24123
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/1940