THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-5882
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-5882

Wpc300n Wireless N Notebook Adapter Driver vulnerability

CVSS
8.3
EPSS
13.0%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
Stack-based buffer overflow in the Broadcom BCMWL5.SYS wireless device driver 3.50.21.10, as used in Cisco Linksys WPC300N Wireless-N Notebook Adapter before 4.100.15.5 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an 802.11 response frame containing a long SSID field.
Affected vendor
Linksys
Affected product
Wpc300n Wireless N Notebook Adapter Driver
CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2006-11-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable from an adjacent network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 13.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-5882

  • Confirm whether Linksys Wpc300n Wireless N Notebook Adapter Driver is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-5882.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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