HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-2078

Fitelnet vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
3.2%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in multiple FITELnet products, including FITELnet-F40, F80, F100, F120, F1000, and E20/E30, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted DNS messages that trigger errors in (1) ProxyDNS or (2) PKI-Resolver, as demonstrated by the OUSPG PROTOS DNS test suite.
Affected vendor
Furukawa Electric
Affected product
Fitelnet
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Published
2006-04-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-2078

  • Confirm whether Furukawa Electric Fitelnet is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-2078.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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