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CVE-2004-0487
A certain ActiveX control in Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption)…
High10.0EPSS 6.4%
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- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
A certain ActiveX control in Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary programs.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 14 days later
· 14 days later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.4% · top 6.2% 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 10.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- 20040521 [SNS Advisory No.72] Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2004 ActiveX Control Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- nav-activex-code-execution(16220) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- O-149 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIACx_transferred
- VU#312510 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2004.05.20.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.lac.co.jp/security/csl/intelligence/SNSadvisory_e/72_e.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 11676 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 10392 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 6303 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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