CVE-2017-16902 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a Vonage home router to reboot by sending excessively long strings to the login fields, resulting in a denial of service.
- 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-2017-16902?
CVE-2017-16902 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Nov 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
On the Vonage VDV-23 115 3.2.11-0.9.40 home router, sending a long string of characters in the loginPassword and/or loginUsername field to goform/login causes the router to reboot.
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-16902?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Vonage Vdv-23 Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2017-16902?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-16902 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-2017-16902 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-16902 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vf46-qvfh-pq3c.