Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-0060 - Unspecified vulnerability in Lucent products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Attackers can cause a denial of service in Ascend MAX and Pipeline routers with a malformed packet to the discard port, which is used by the Java Configurator tool.
Vulnerable Configurations
Exploit-Db
description Lucent Ascend MAX Router 5.0/Pipeline Router 6.0/TNT Router 1.0/2.0 MAX UDP Port 9 Vulnerability (2). CVE-1999-0060. Remote exploit for hardware platform id EDB-ID:19555 last seen 2016-02-02 modified 1998-03-17 published 1998-03-17 reporter Rootshell source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/19555/ title Lucent Ascend MAX <= 5.0/Pipeline <= 6.0/TNT 1.0/2.0 Router MAX UDP Port 9 Vulnerability 2 description Lucent Ascend MAX Router 5.0/Pipeline Router 6.0/TNT Router 1.0/2.0 MAX UDP Port 9 Vulnerability (1). CVE-1999-0060. Remote exploit for hardware platform id EDB-ID:19554 last seen 2016-02-02 modified 1998-03-16 published 1998-03-16 reporter Rootshell source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/19554/ title Lucent Ascend MAX <= 5.0/Pipeline <= 6.0/TNT 1.0/2.0 Router MAX UDP Port 9 Vulnerability 1
Nessus
| NASL family | Denial of Service |
| NASL id | ASCEND_KILL.NASL |
| description | It was possible to make the remote Ascend router reboot by sending it a UDP packet containg special data on port 9 (discard). An attacker may use this flaw to make your router crash continuously, preventing your network from working properly. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 10019 |
| published | 1999-06-22 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 1999-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/10019 |
| title | Ascend MAX / Pipeline Router Discard Port Malformed Packet DoS |