VDB-200 · CVE-2003-0511 · BID 8290

Cisco Aironet Wireless Access AP1x00 HTTP GET denial of service

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Cisco Aironet Wireless Access AP1x00 (Wireless LAN Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component HTTP GET Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

The web server for Cisco Aironet AP1x00 Series Wireless devices running certain versions of IOS 12.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reload) via a malformed URL.

The bug was discovered 07/28/2003. The weakness was published 07/28/2003 by Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response T with Cisco (Website). The advisory is shared for download at cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2003-0511 since 07/07/2003. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 17780 (HTTP GET Vulnerability in AP1x00), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CISCO and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at cisco.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (17780). Similar entry is available at 20748.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 17780
Nessus Name: HTTP GET Vulnerability in AP1x00
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: cisco.com

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07/03/2003 🔍
07/07/2003 +4 days 🔍
07/28/2003 +21 days 🔍
07/28/2003 +0 days 🔍
07/29/2003 +1 days 🔍
08/27/2003 +29 days 🔍
01/10/2012 +3058 days 🔍
06/26/2019 +2724 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Researcher: Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response T
Organization: Cisco
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2003-0511 (🔍)
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SecurityFocus: 8290
OSVDB: 2309 - CVE-2003-0511 - Cisco - Aironet - Denial of Service Issue

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/29/2003 11:25
Updated: 06/26/2019 09:51
Changes: 07/29/2003 11:25 (70), 06/26/2019 09:51 (5)
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