CVE-2019-14333 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

An attacker can cause a denial of service on D-Link access points by sending a long action parameter to admin.cgi without authentication.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2019-14333?

CVE-2019-14333 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 1 Aug 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered on D-Link 6600-AP and DWL-3600AP Ax 4.2.0.14 21/03/2019 devices. There is a pre-authenticated denial of service attack against the access point via a long action parameter to admin.cgi.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-14333?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Dlink 6600-Ap Firmware, Dlink Dwl-3600ap Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2019-14333?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-14333 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-2019-14333 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14333 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-mpr8-9q5c-jhw7.

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