{"id":"CVE-2004-0683","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2004-0683","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:30:19.905Z","title":"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.","description":"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.","published":"2004-08-06T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:06:09.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["symantec/norton antivirus"],"epss":{"score":0.06451,"percentile":0.93682,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2004-07-12","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":312,"kind":"exploit","title":"Norton AntiVirus - Denial of Service","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/312","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/windows/dos/312.txt","file":"exploits/windows/dos/312.txt","published":"2004-07-12","added":"2004-07-11","updated":"2016-03-28","author":"Bipin Gautam","type":"dos","platform":"windows","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["OSVDB-14843","CVE-2004-0683"],"tags":null,"aliases":"av_bomb_3.zip","applicationUrl":"http://www.exploit-db.comnortonantiv2002.zip","screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":null}]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 6.5%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108938579712894&w=2","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16658","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108938579712894&w=2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16658","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0683","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}