OpenNDS Captive Portal denial of service | CVE-2023-38322

NAME
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OpenNDS Captive Portal denial of service

Platforms Affected:
OpenNDS Captive Portal 10.1.1
OpenNDS Captive Portal 10.1.0
OpenNDS Captive Portal 9.10.0

Risk Level:
3.7

Exploitability:
Unproven

Consequences:
Denial of Service

DESCRIPTION
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OpenNDS Captive Portal is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the do_binauth component. By sending a specially crafted GET HTTP request with a missing User-Agent HTTP header, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. Note: This issue only occurs when the client is about to be authenticated, and can be triggered only when the BinAuth option is set.

CVSS 3.0 Information
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Privileges Required:
None

User Interaction:
None

Scope:
Unchanged

Access Vector:
Network



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