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CVE-2006-1068

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-1068 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Netgear 614 and 624 routers, potentially running VXWorks. Remote attackers can trigger an IRC connection reset by sending a malformed DCC SEND string to an IRC channel, possibly due to issues with NAT masquerading code. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.9, indicating a low attack complexity with local access required, and its primary impact is a complete denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:netgear:netgear_router:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.9MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0176 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 3,052 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

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/25230
hm2k.org / news/1141413208.html
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/426756/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/426761/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/426863/100/0/threaded
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/426934/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/16954