CVE-2024-8454 PLANET Technology switch devices - Swctrl service DoS attack

What is CVE-2024-8454?

CVE-2024-8454 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in PLANET Technology GS-4210-24P2S hardware 3.0, published on 30 Sep 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The swctrl service is used to detect and remotely manage PLANET Technology devices. Certain switch models have a Denial-of-Service vulnerability in the swctrl service, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to send crafted packets that can crash the service.

Weakness: CWE-476, CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8454?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Planet Gs-4210-24p2s Firmware, Planet Gs-4210-24pl4c Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2024-8454?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8454 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-2024-8454 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8454 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in PLANET Technology GS-4210-24P2S hardware 3.0

• CVE-2024-8456 PLANET Technology switch devices - Missing Authentication for multiple HTTP routes Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-8448 PLANET Technology switch devices - Remote privilege escalation using hard-coded credentials High 8.8
• CVE-2024-8458 PLANET Technology switch devices - Cross-site Request Forgery High 8.8
• CVE-2024-8450 PLANET Technology switch devices - Hard-coded SNMPv1 read-write community string High 8.6
• CVE-2024-8455 PLANET Technology switch devices - Swctrl service exchanges weakly encoded passwords High 8.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-2g3x-jgf5-xm96.