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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2002-0812

Information leak in Compaq WL310, and the Orinoco Residential Gateway access point it is based on, uses a system identification string as a default SNMP read/write community string, which allows remote attackers to obtain and modify sensitive…

EXPLOIT ✓MEDIUM 6.4EPSS 3.17%

Does this matter?

A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 3.2%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.

Description

Information leak in Compaq WL310, and the Orinoco Residential Gateway access point it is based on, uses a system identification string as a default SNMP read/write community string, which allows remote attackers to obtain and modify sensitive configuration information by querying for the identification string.

CVSS 2.0
6.4 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS
3.17% probability · 88th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 9 August 2002
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-200
Affected
hpe/compaq wl310 firmware · proxim/orinoco rg-1000 firmware · proxim/orinoco rg-1100 firmware
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 3.17%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 3.2% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-21699source ↗Orinoco OEM Residential Gateway - SNMP Community String Remote Configurationhardware · Foundstone Inc.remote9 August 2002yes

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.