THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-0938
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2017-0938

Airos vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
21.0%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Denial of Service attack in airMAX < 8.3.2 , airMAX < 6.0.7 and EdgeMAX < 1.9.7 allow attackers to use the Discovery Protocol in amplification attacks.
Affected vendor
Ui
Affected product
Airos
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2019-02-12

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 21.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-0938

  • Confirm whether Ui Airos is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-0938.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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