Vulnerability in Nortel Wlan Access Point 2220
CVE-2004-2549
Nortel Wireless LAN (WLAN) Access Point (AP) 2220, 2221, and 2225 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a TCP request with a large string, followed by 8 newline characters, to (1) the Telnet service on TCP port 23 and (2) the HTTP service on TCP port 80, possibly due to a buffer overflow.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.105 (95.8th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 95.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.105 · newest: 0.105 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/9787 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15373 (vdb-entry)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-03/0055.html (mailing-list)
- www.osvdb.org/4128 (vdb-entry)
- www116.nortelnetworks.com/docs/bvdoc/wlan/216109a.pdf
- secunia.com/advisories/11034 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2004-2549?
- CVE-2004-2549 is a vulnerability in Nortel Wlan Access Point 2220. Published 2004-12-31.
- Is CVE-2004-2549 known to be exploited?
- 4 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.