CVE-2002-2206: Symantec Norton Antivirus

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The POP3 proxy service (POPROXY.EXE) in Norton AntiVirus 2001 allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via a long username with multiple /localhost entries.

Affected products

• Symantec Norton Antivirus: version 2001 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.