CVE-2015-0679 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-0679?

CVE-2015-0679 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Cisco Wireless Lan Controller Software, published on 28 Mar 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The web-authentication functionality on Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) devices 7.3(103.8) and 7.4(110.0) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device reload) via a malformed password, aka Bug ID CSCui57980.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0679?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Wireless Lan Controller Software.

How do I fix CVE-2015-0679?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-0679 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-2015-0679 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0679 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Wireless Lan Controller Software

• CVE-2007-2036 Hardcoded credentials in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2016-1363 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-6314 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2010-2842 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.0
• CVE-2010-2843 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.0

All Cisco Wireless Lan Controller Software vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-pmpv-wf74-rw2h.