Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-2912 - Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in Linksys Wrt54G 3.01.3/3.03.6/4.00.7

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
linksys
nessus

Summary

Linksys WRT54G router allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and server hang) via an HTTP POST request with a negative Content-Length value.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Hardware
Linksys
3

Nessus

NASL familyCISCO
NASL idLINKSYS_MULTIPLE_VULNS.NASL
descriptionThe remote host appears to be a Linksys WRT54G Wireless Router. The firmware version installed on the remote host is prone to several flaws: - Execute arbitrary commands on the affected router with root privilages. (CVE-2005-2916) - Download and replace the configuration of affected routers via a special POST request to the
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id20096
published2005-10-28
reporterCopyright (C) 2005-2018 Josh Zlatin-Amishav
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/20096
titleLinksys Multiple Vulnerabilities (OF, DoS, more)