CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2013-4658

Ea6500 Firmware vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
9.3%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Linksys EA6500 has SMB Symlink Traversal allowing symbolic links to be created to locations outside of the Samba share.
Affected vendor
Linksys
Affected product
Ea6500 Firmware
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2019-10-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 9.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2013-4658

  • Confirm whether Linksys Ea6500 Firmware is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2013-4658.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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