Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-0592

Title: Watchguard Firebox II kernel DoS via malformed ICMP/TCP stream

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2001-0592.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 02, 2001

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.35%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2001-0592: Watchguard Firebox II prior to 4.6 allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service in the kernel via a large stream (>10,000) of malformed ICMP or TCP packets.

Impacted Vendors

watchguard 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-04/0054.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6327 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-04/0054.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6327

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2001-0592 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 02, 2001 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.