CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2019-19506 — Tenda PA6 Wi-Fi Powerline extender 1.0.1.21 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the "homeplugd" process

High CVSS 7.8

Tenda PA6 Wi-Fi Powerline extender 1.0.1.21 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the "homeplugd" process. By sending a specially crafted UDP packet, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the device to reboot.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.8 (2.0)
Published
2020-06-25
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-835

Affected products

  • tendacn / pa6_firmware / 1.0.1.21

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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