CVE-2002-0782 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Novell BorderManager 3.5 when its Port-Address Translation (PAT) feature is enabled. Remote attackers can exploit this by flooding the system with connection requests to unroutable hosts, thereby filling the connection table and potentially forwarding traffic to the public interface. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity to achieve 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
3.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:novell:bordermanager:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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