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medium 5.0

CVE-2002-1071 json

ZyXEL Prestige 642R allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service in the Telnet, FTP, and DHCP services (crash) via a TCP packet wit…

published 2002-08-31 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-1060

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

ZyXEL Prestige 642R allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service in the Telnet, FTP, and DHCP services (crash) via a TCP packet with both the SYN and ACK flags set.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21561)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

3.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21561 ZYXEL Prestige 642R Router - Malformed Packet Denial of Service dos, 2002-07-17
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5034 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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