THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2004-2549
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2004-2549

Wlan Access Point 2220 vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
10.5%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Nortel
Affected product
Wlan Access Point 2220
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published
2004-12-31

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 10.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2004-2549

  • Confirm whether Nortel Wlan Access Point 2220 is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2004-2549.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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