CVE-2001-1117 describes a vulnerability in LinkSys EtherFast BEFSR41 Cable/DSL routers running firmware prior to version 1.39.3 Beta. This flaw allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to view administrative and user passwords by inspecting the HTML source code of the index.htm and Password.htm pages. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (MEDIUM), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring no authentication, and resulting in a partial compromise of confidentiality. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions across various platforms.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.35CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:linksys:befsr41:1.35:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.36CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:linksys:befsr41:1.36:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.37CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:linksys:befsr41:1.37:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.38.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:linksys:befsr41:1.38.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.