CVE-2001-1117 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

LinkSys EtherFast BEFSR41 Cable/DSL routers running firmware before 1.39.3 Beta allows a remote attacker to view administration and user passwords by connecting to the router and viewing the HTML source for (1) index.htm and (2) Password.htm.

Published: 2002-06-25

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 1.5% 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:linksys:befsr41:1.35:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:h:linksys:befsr41:1.36:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:h:linksys:befsr41:1.37:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:h:linksys:befsr41:1.38.5:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2001-1098	LinkSys EtherFast BEFSR41 Cable/DSL routers running firmware before 1.39.3 Beta allows a remote attacker to view administration and user passwords by connecting to the router and viewing the HTML source for (1) index.htm and (2) Password.htm.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01511.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/befsr41/befsr-fw1402.zip
http://www.osvdb.org/1920
http://www.osvdb.org/5467
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/201390
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/203302
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3141
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6949

History

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Subscriptions

Linksys Befsr41

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-06-25T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:44:07.416Z

Reserved: 2002-03-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-1117

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-08-10T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2001-1117

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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