CVE-2018-18442 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can disrupt live video and audio streaming on D-Link cameras by launching network flood attacks, affecting device availability.
- 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-2018-18442?
CVE-2018-18442 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 Dec 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
D-Link DCS-825L devices with firmware 1.08 do not employ a suitable mechanism to prevent denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. An attacker can harm the device availability (i.e., live-online video/audio streaming) by using the hping3 tool to perform an IPv4 flood attack. Verified attacks includes SYN flooding, UDP flooding, ICMP flooding, and SYN-ACK flooding.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-18442?
It affects 1 product.
Products include D-Link Dcs-825l Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2018-18442?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-18442 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-2018-18442 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-18442 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-v92p-w44j-35xr.