CVE-2015-3966 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-3966?

CVE-2015-3966 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 30 Aug 2015. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The IPsec SA establishment process on Innominate mGuard devices with firmware 8.x before 8.1.7 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (VPN service restart) by leveraging a peer relationship to send a crafted configuration with compression.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-3966?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Innominate Mguard Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2015-3966?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-3966 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-2015-3966 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-3966 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2014-9193 Innominate mGuard Improper Privilege Management High 8.5
• CVE-2012-3006 Weak cryptography in n/a High 7.1
• CVE-2014-2356 Innominate mGuard Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Medium 4.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-9rmr-v76m-g3pp.