CVE-2004-0683 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2002 and 2003. Remote attackers can exploit this by providing a compressed archive containing an excessive number of directories, leading to high CPU consumption. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no authentication required, resulting in partial system availability impact. While no active exploitation is reported and community discussion is minimal, a proof-of-concept exploit exists on ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2002CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_antivirus:2002:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2003CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_antivirus:2003:*:pro:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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