Instantos
CVE-2024-42397
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Resource consumption limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 5.3 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could cause denial of service by exhausting system resources by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
Multiple unauthenticated Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerabilities exist in the AP Certificate Management daemon accessed via the PAPI protocol. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Implement rate limiting, set resource quotas, validate input sizes, use timeouts.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400), which allows attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources. Multiple unauthenticated Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerabilities exist in the AP Certificate Management daemon accessed via the PAPI protocol. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities results in the ability to interrupt the normal operation of the affected Access Point. Affected products include: Hp Instantos.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
Multiple unauthenticated Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerabilities exist in the AP Certificate Management daemon accessed via the PAPI protocol. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities results in the ability to interrupt the normal operation of the affected Access Point.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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CVE.org
EPSS
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
There is a vulnerability in the AP Certificate Management Service which could allow a threat actor to execute an unauthe
There are vulnerabilities in the Soft AP Daemon Service which could allow a threat actor to execute an unauthenticated R
There are vulnerabilities in the Soft AP Daemon Service which could allow a threat actor to execute an unauthenticated R
There is a command injection vulnerability in the underlying deauthentication service that could lead to unauthenticated
There are command injection vulnerabilities in the underlying Soft AP Daemon service that could lead to unauthenticated
There is a command injection vulnerability in the underlying Central Communications service that could lead to unauthent
There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the underlying SAE (Simultaneous Authentication of Equals) service that coul
There are buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the underlying Central Communications service that could lead to unauthenti
There are buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the underlying Central Communications service that could lead to unauthenti
There are buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the underlying CLI service that could lead to unauthenticated remote code e
There are buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the underlying CLI service that could lead to unauthenticated remote code e
There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the underlying AirWave client service that could lead to unauthenticated rem
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