CVE-2004-0683: Symantec Norton Antivirus

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 6.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2002 and 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a compressed archive that contains a large number of directories.

Affected products

• Symantec Norton Antivirus: version 2002 only; version 2003 only

Published 2004-08-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.