CVE-2002-0896: Swatch

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The throttle capability in Swatch may fail to report certain events if (1) the same type of event occurs after the throttle period, or (2) when multiple events matching the same "watchfor" expression do not occur after the throttle period, which could allow attackers to avoid detection.

Affected products

• Swatch Swatch: version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only

Published 2002-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.