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CVE-2002-2206 — HIGH severity vulnerability (The POP3 proxy service (POPROXY.EXE) in Norton AntiVirus 200)

The POP3 proxy service (POPROXY.EXE) in Norton AntiVirus 2001 allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via a long username with multiple /localhost entries.

CVE IDCVE-2002-2206
SeverityHIGH
CVSS score7.8
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CWENVD-CWE-Other
StatusModified
Published2002-12-31
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionThe POP3 proxy service (POPROXY.EXE) in Norton AntiVirus 2001 allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via a long username with multiple /localhost entries.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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