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CVE-2018-21166 — Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by denial of service

Medium CVSS 4.9

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by denial of service. This affects R6100 before 1.0.1.22, R7500 before 1.0.0.122, R7800 before 1.0.2.42, R8900 before 1.0.3.10, R9000 before 1.0.3.10, WNDR3700v4 before 1.0.2.96, WNDR4300 before 1.0.2.98, WNDR4300v2 before 1.0.0.54, WNDR4500v3 before 1.0.0.54, and WNR2000v5 before 1.0.0.64.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
4.9 (3.1)
Published
2020-04-23
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system

Affected products

  • netgear / r6100_firmware
  • netgear / r7500_firmware
  • netgear / r7800_firmware
  • netgear / r8900_firmware
  • netgear / r9000_firmware
  • netgear / wndr3700_firmware

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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