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CVE-2020-5548 — Yamaha Rtx830 Firmware security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.8

Yamaha LTE VoIP Router(NVR700W firmware Rev.15.00.15 and earlier), Yamaha Gigabit VoIP Router(NVR510 firmware Rev.15.01.14 and earlier), Yamaha Gigabit VPN Router(RTX810 firmware Rev.11.01.33 and earlier, RTX830 firmware Rev.15.02.09 and earlier, RTX1200 firmware Rev.10.01.76 and earlier, RTX1210 firmware Rev.14.01.33 and earlier, RTX3500 firmware Rev.14.00.26 and earlier, and RTX5000 firmware Rev.14.00.26 and earlier), Yamaha Broadband VoIP Router(NVR500 firmware Rev.11.00.38 and earlier), and Yamaha Firewall(FWX120 firmware Rev.11.03.27 and earlier) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.8 (2.0)
Published
2020-04-01
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system

Affected products

  • yamaha / rtx830_firmware
  • yamaha / nvr510_firmware
  • yamaha / nvr700w_firmware
  • yamaha / rtx1210_firmware
  • yamaha / rtx5000_firmware
  • yamaha / rtx3500_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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