CVE-2002-1778 describes a vulnerability in Symantec Norton Personal Firewall 2002 that allows remote attackers to bypass its port scan protection. This bypass is achieved by employing specific malformed TCP scans, including SYN/FIN, SYN/FIN/URG, SYN/FIN/PUSH, or SYN/FIN/URG/PUSH. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, indicating easy exploitation over the network with potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. Despite its age and high community discussion (10 mentions), there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known public exploit codes in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2002CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_personal_firewall:2002:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.