CVE-2002-1072 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting ZyXEL Prestige 642R and 310 routers. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending an oversized, fragmented ICMP packet, causing the device to crash or become unresponsive. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without authentication, leading to a partial loss of availability. While not actively exploited in the wild and lacking Metasploit modules, public exploit code exists (EDB-21637), though it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
310CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:zyxel:prestige:310:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
642rCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:zyxel:prestige:642r:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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