CVE-2006-4523

Homeportal vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

3.7%

EPSS pct

89th

Exploited

No known

The web-based management interface in 2Wire, Inc. HomePortal and OfficePortal Series modems and routers allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a CRLF sequence in a GET request.

Affected vendor

2wire Inc

Affected product

Homeportal

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published

2006-09-01

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-4523

Confirm whether 2wire Inc Homeportal is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-4523.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

How ThreatPort helps with CVE-2006-4523

ThreatPort's external attack surface scanner checks your internet-facing assets — agentlessly, from the outside in — for the exposed services and versions that CVE-2006-4523 affects, then prioritises the finding by real risk using CISA KEV and FIRST.org EPSS.

Run a free external exposure scan

Are you exposed to CVE-2006-4523?

Run an instant, non-intrusive external scan to check your attack surface for CVE-2006-4523.

Start free scan

No credit card. Agentless.

Related vulnerabilities

Atp200 Firmware vulnerability

MEDIUM

CVE-2019-0218

Pony Mail vulnerability