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CVE-2007-2896

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-05-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in the Symantec Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) 6.5.3 managers and agents on Windows before 20070524 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and application hang) via certain network scans to ESM ports.

Affected products

• Symantec Enterprise Security Manager: 6.5.3

References

• http://osvdb.org/35077
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25390
• http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.05.24a.html
• http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.05.24b.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24123
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018120
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1940
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34507
• http://osvdb.org/35077
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25390
• http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.05.24a.html
• http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.05.24b.html

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