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CVE-2008-1242

36
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-1242 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in the Belkin F5D7230-4 router with firmware 9.01.10. The router's control panel authenticates users based solely on their IP address, allowing an attacker to gain unauthorized access by spoofing the IP of a previously authenticated user. This critical vulnerability has a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a severe risk with complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability possible without authentication. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit (EDB-6305) is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:belkin:f5d7230-4:*:*:9.01.10:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.13%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-6305 · Aug 25, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0413 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

secunia.com / advisories/29345
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/41120
gnucitizen.org / projects/router-hacking-challenge
securityfocus.com / archive/1/489009/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/28317