CVE-2008-1546 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause air-conditioning outages in Mitsubishi Electric GB-50 systems by sending a malicious XML document to the web controller.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2008-1546?
CVE-2008-1546 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 28 Mar 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
servlet/MIMEReceiveServlet in the web controller for Mitsubishi Electric GB-50 and GB-50A air-conditioning control systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (air-conditioning outage) via an XML document containing a setRequest command.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1546?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mitsubishi Electric Gb.
How do I fix CVE-2008-1546?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-1546 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2008-1546 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1546 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r527-v52q-x77v.