CVE-2006-5196

Surfboard vulnerability

CVSS

7.8

EPSS

7.5%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

The HTTP interface in the Motorola SURFboard SB4200 Cable Modem allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device crash) via a request with MfcISAPICommand set to SecretProc and a long string in the Secret parameter.

Affected vendor

Motorola

Affected product

Surfboard

CVSS vector

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

Published

2006-10-10

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 7.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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