CVE-2002-0707: Surfcontrol Superscout Web Filter

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Web Reports Server for SurfControl SuperScout WebFilter allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via large GET requests, possibly due to a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Surfcontrol Superscout Web Filter: version 3.0 only; version 3.0.3 only
• Surfcontrol Web Filter: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only

Published 2002-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.