Vulnerability in Apple Airport Express
CVE-2009-2189
The ICMPv6 implementation on the Apple Time Capsule, AirPort Extreme Base Station, and AirPort Express Base Station with firmware before 7.5.2 does not limit the rate of (1) Router Advertisement and (2) Neighbor Discovery packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and device restart) by sending many packets.
EPSS: 0.008 (53.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Apple Airport_express
- Apple Airport_express_base_station_firmware — versions 4.0.9, 7.4.1, 3.84
- Apple Airport_extreme
- Apple Airport_extreme_base_station_firmware — versions 5.7, 5.5
- Apple Time_capsule
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)