CVE-2001-0740 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

3COM OfficeConnect 812 and 840 ADSL Router 4.2, running OCR812 router software 1.1.9 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long string containing a large number of "%s" strings, possibly triggering a format string vulnerability.

Published: 2002-03-09

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 5.9% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:h:3com:3c840-us::::::::
	cpe:2.3:h:3com:3cp4144::::::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2001-0725	3COM OfficeConnect 812 and 840 ADSL Router 4.2, running OCR812 router software 1.1.9 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long string containing a large number of "%s" strings, possibly triggering a format string vulnerability.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.05879.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-05/0115.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100119572524232&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100137290421828&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2721
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6573

History

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Subscriptions

3com 3c840-us 3cp4144

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-03-09T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:30:06.097Z

Reserved: 2001-10-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-0740

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-10-18T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2001-0740

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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