CVE-2019-5054

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the session handling functionality of the NETGEAR N300 (WNR2000v5 with Firmware Version V1.0.0.70) HTTP server. An HTTP request with an empty User-Agent string sent to a page requiring authentication can cause a null pointer dereference, resulting in the HTTP service crashing. An unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

NETGEAR Wnr2000 Firmware: 1.0.0.70

References

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0831
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0831

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