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CVE-2002-2206
The POP3 proxy service (POPROXY.EXE) in Norton AntiVirus 2001 allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash)…
High7.8EPSS 2.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- 20020911 Norton AntiVirus 2001 POP3 Proxy local DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- nav-poproxy-username-dos(10085) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 5692 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20020919 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/291358/2002-09-08/2002-09-14/0, Subj: Norton AintiVirus 2001 POPROXY DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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