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CVE-2025-50615 — A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Netis WF2880 v2.1.40207 in the FUN_00470c50 function of the cgitest.cgi file

High CVSS 7.5

A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Netis WF2880 v2.1.40207 in the FUN_00470c50 function of the cgitest.cgi file. Attackers can trigger this vulnerability by controlling the value of wl_mac_filter_set in the payload, which can cause the program to crash and lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2025-08-13
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

  • netis-systems / wf2880_firmware / 2.1.40207

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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