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CVE-2002-1071

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1071 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting ZyXEL Prestige 642R routers. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the Telnet, FTP, and DHCP services by sending a specially crafted TCP packet with both SYN and ACK flags set. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions across various platforms.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
310CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:zyxel:prestige:310:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
642rCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:zyxel:prestige:642r:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21561 · Jul 17, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0332 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

online.securityfocus.com / archive/1/277242
online.securityfocus.com / archive/1/277303
online.securityfocus.com / archive/1/277307
iss.net / security_center/static/9372.php
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/5034
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory