WatchGuard SOHO firewall allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a flood of fragmented IP packets, which causes the firewall to drop connections and stop forwarding packets.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2000-0896 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.76%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ | |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.92% | 1.76% | +0.85% |
| 2 | 2025-03-17 | 1.00% | 0.92% | -0.08% |
| 3 | 2024-12-17 | — | 1.00% | — |
Full EPSS history (5 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| watchguard | soho_firewall | 1.6 | cpe:2.3:h:watchguard:soho_firewall:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.osvdb.org/1690 | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2113 | Exploit Patch Vendor Advisory |
| http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/advise70.php | Exploit Patch Vendor Advisory |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5749 |