CVE-2002-1203 — MEDIUM severity vulnerability (IBM SecureWay Firewall before 4.2.2 performs extra processin)
IBM SecureWay Firewall before 4.2.2 performs extra processing before determining that a packet is invalid and dropping it, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set.
| CVE ID | CVE-2002-1203 |
|---|---|
| Severity | MEDIUM |
| CVSS score | 5.0 |
| CVSS vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| CWE | CWE-399 |
| Status | Modified |
| Published | 2002-10-28 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-16 |
| Description | IBM SecureWay Firewall before 4.2.2 performs extra processing before determining that a packet is invalid and dropping it, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set. |
| Source | NIST National Vulnerability Database |
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