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CVE-2019-5055

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% 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 Host Access Point Daemon (hostapd) on the NETGEAR N300 (WNR2000v5 with Firmware Version V1.0.0.70) wireless router. A SOAP request sent in an invalid sequence to the <WFAWLANConfig:1#PutMessage> service can cause a null pointer dereference, resulting in the hostapd service crashing. An unauthenticated attacker can send a specially-crafted SOAP request to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• NETGEAR Wnr2000 Firmware: 1.0.0.70

References

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0832
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0832

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