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CVE-2006-6538

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-6538 describes denial-of-service vulnerabilities affecting D-LINK DWL-2000AP+ firmware version 2.11. Remote attackers can trigger a device reset by flooding ARP replies on either wired or wireless links, or cause a device crash by flooding ARP requests on the wireless link. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a critical impact on availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:d-link:dwl-2000ap\+:2.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-2915 · Dec 11, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0345 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/23332
securityreason.com / securityalert/2029
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/30837
exploit-db.com / exploits/2915
tripp.dynalias.org / arpflood.c
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/454047/100/0/threaded
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/4965