What is CVE-2018-5791?

CVE-2018-5791 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Extremewireless Wing, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2018-02-05.

How severe is CVE-2018-5791?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Extremewireless Wing

CVE-2018-5791

An issue was discovered in Extreme Networks ExtremeWireless WiNG 5.x before 5.8.6.9 and 5.9.x before 5.9.1.3. There is a Remote, Unauthenticated Heap Overflow in the HSD Process over the MINT (Media Independent Tunnel) Protocol on the WiNG Access Point via crafted packets.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.010 (58.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Extremewireless Wing
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-5791?: CVE-2018-5791 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Extremewireless Wing, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2018-02-05.
How severe is CVE-2018-5791?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.