CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2023-49074 — Tp-Link Eap225 Firmware security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the TDDP functionality of Tp-Link AC1350 Wireless MU-MIMO Gigabit Access Point (EAP225 V3) v5.1.0 Build 20220926. A specially crafted series of network requests can lead to reset to factory settings. An attacker can send a sequence of unauthenticated packets to trigger this vulnerability.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2024-04-09
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-749

Affected products

  • tp-link / eap225_firmware / 5.1.0

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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