CVE-2002-1236 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Linksys BEFSR41 EtherFast Cable/DSL Router, specifically in firmware versions prior to 1.42.7. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the device's remote management web server by sending an HTTP request to Gozila.cgi without any arguments. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in a partial denial of service. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.40.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:linksys:befsr41:1.40.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.41CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:linksys:befsr41:1.41:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.42.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:linksys:befsr41:1.42.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.42.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:linksys:befsr41:1.42.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.