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CVE-2002-2371

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-2371 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Linksys WET11 firmware versions 1.31 and 1.32. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the device by sending a specially crafted packet where the source MAC address in the DLC header matches the device's hardware address. This vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a critical impact on availability with low attack complexity. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, suggesting awareness among researchers.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:linksys:wet11:1.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:linksys:wet11:1.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0178 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0045.html
cert.uni-stuttgart.de / archive/bugtraq/2002/10/msg00375.html
Exploit
iss.net / security_center/static/10472.php
linksys.com / download/vertxt/WET11_fw_ver.TXT
securityfocus.com / bid/6046
Patch