CVE-2021-34618 Denial of service in Aruba Instant Access Points

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service on Aruba Instant Access Points, requiring administrators to apply vendor patches.

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

What is CVE-2021-34618?

CVE-2021-34618 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Aruba Instant Access Points, published on 19 Jul 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A remote denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in some Aruba Instant Access Point (IAP) products in version(s): Aruba Instant 6.4.x: 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.18 and below; Aruba Instant 6.5.x: 6.5.4.18 and below; Aruba Instant 8.3.x: 8.3.0.14 and below; Aruba Instant 8.4.x: All versions; Aruba Instant 8.5.x: 8.5.0.11 and below; Aruba Instant 8.6.x: 8.6.0.7 and below; Aruba Instant 8.7.x: 8.7.1.1 and below. Aruba has released patches for Aruba Instant that address this security vulnerability.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-34618?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Aruba Aruba Instant.

How do I fix CVE-2021-34618?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-34618 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-2021-34618 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-34618 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-x3hh-68ch-974m.

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