CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2026-36958 — A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the U-SPEED N300 V1.0.0 wireless router

High CVSS 7.5

A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the U-SPEED N300 V1.0.0 wireless router. By sending a large number of concurrent HTTP requests to random or non-existent endpoints on the web management interface, an attacker can exhaust system resources in the embedded Boa HTTP server. This causes the router web interface to become unresponsive and may require manual reboot to restore normal operation.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2026-04-30
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

  • u-speed / n300_firmware / 1.0.0

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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