CVE-2012-1821 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager by flooding packets to trigger automated blocking.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2012-1821?
CVE-2012-1821 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Symantec Endpoint Protection, published on 24 May 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-1821?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Symantec Endpoint Protection.
How do I fix CVE-2012-1821?
No fix has been published for CVE-2012-1821 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2012-1821 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1821 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Symantec Endpoint Protection
- CVE-2012-0295 Code injection in n/a
- CVE-2018-5237 Privilege escalation in Symantec Endpoint Protection
- CVE-2020-5836 Privilege escalation in Symantec Endpoint Protection
- CVE-2020-5837 Path traversal in Symantec Endpoint Protection
- CVE-2020-5820 Privilege escalation in Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) and Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition (SEP SBE)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3wf6-phm6-xcr4.