CVE-2004-2549

high

Description

Nortel Wireless LAN (WLAN) Access Point (AP) 2220, 2221, and 2225 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a TCP request with a large string, followed by 8 newline characters, to (1) the Telnet service on TCP port 23 and (2) the HTTP service on TCP port 80, possibly due to a buffer overflow.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15373

http://www116.nortelnetworks.com/docs/bvdoc/wlan/216109a.pdf

http://www.osvdb.org/4128

http://securitytracker.com/id?1009294

http://secunia.com/advisories/11034

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-03/0055.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2004-12-31

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.08349