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CVE-2002-2336

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-2336 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Norton Personal Firewall 2002 4.0. When configured for automatic attack blocking, the firewall can be tricked by remote attackers using spoofed packets to block legitimate IP addresses. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity, as it can be exploited remotely with medium attack complexity to cause a partial denial of service. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV is "No"), exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2002CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_personal_firewall:2002:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21915 · Oct 8, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0255 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0156.html
online.securityfocus.com / archive/1/294411
iss.net / security_center/static/10314.php
securityfocus.com / bid/5917
Exploit