CVE-2024-21875 DoS attack when broadcasting billboard messages

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

Attackers can cause a denial of service on Hacker Hotel Badge 2024 devices by flooding billboard messages due to lack of resource limits.

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-2024-21875?

CVE-2024-21875 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Badge.team Hacker Hotel Badge 2024, published on 11 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Badge leading to a denial of service attack.Team Hacker Hotel Badge 2024 on risc-v (billboard modules) allows Flooding.This issue affects Hacker Hotel Badge 2024: from 0.1.0 through 0.1.3.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-21875?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Badge.team Hacker Hotel Badge 2024.

How do I fix CVE-2024-21875?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-21875 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-2024-21875 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-21875 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-jmph-rxrw-5rrh.

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