CVE-2012-1821

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-05-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Network Threat Protection module in the Manager component in Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 11.0.600x through 11.0.700x on Windows Server 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (web-server outage, or daemon crash or hang) via a flood of packets that triggers automated blocking of network traffic.

Affected products

Symantec Endpoint Protection: 11.0.6000, 11.0.6100, 11.0.6200, 11.0.6200.754, 11.0.6300, 11.0.7000 (+1)

References

http://osvdb.org/82147
http://secunia.com/advisories/49221
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/149070
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50358
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027092
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2012&suid=20120522_00
http://osvdb.org/82147
http://secunia.com/advisories/49221
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/149070
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50358
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027092
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2012&suid=20120522_00

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