# CVE-2019-11060: HG100 contains an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

> An attacker can cause a Denial of Service on the ASUS HG100 web API by sending slow HTTP headers, exhausting server resources.

- **Severity:** High 7.4 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 29 Aug 2019
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-cj49-fqj3-gccc

## What is CVE-2019-11060?

CVE-2019-11060 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in ASUS HG100 firmware, published on 29 Aug 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The web api server on Port 8080 of ASUS HG100 firmware up to 1.05.12, which is vulnerable to Slowloris HTTP Denial of Service: an attacker can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending headers very slowly to keep HTTP or HTTPS connections and associated resources alive for a long period of time. CVSS 3.0 Base score 7.4 (Availability impacts). CVSS vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Weakness: CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling), CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-11060?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Asus Hg100 Firmware.

## How do I fix CVE-2019-11060?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-11060 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2019-11060 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-11060 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in ASUS HG100 firmware

- [CVE-2019-11061](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-11061/): HG100 has a broken access control vulnerability in its Web API Server (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2018-11491](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-11491/): Auth bypass in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2018-11492](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-11492/): Denial of service in n/a (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-11060 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2019-11060 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in ASUS HG100 firmware, published on 29 Aug 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-11060 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: ASUS HG100 firmware. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-11060/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-11060/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11060
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11060
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-11060

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