IBM SecureWay Firewall before 4.2.2 performs extra processing before determining that a packet is invalid and dropping it, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set.

Threat-Mapped Scoring

Score: 1.9

Priority: P3 - Important (Medium)

• S9 – Sabotage of System/App
• S10 – Denial of Service (+0.1 bonus)

EPSS

Score: 0.00891
Percentile: 0.74576

CVSS Scoring

Affected Products

• cpe:2.3:a:ibm:secureway_firewall:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:ibm:secureway_firewall:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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