CVE-2023-28338 (GCVE-0-2023-28338)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-15 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-27 14:20
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Summary
Any request send to a Netgear Nighthawk Wifi6 Router (RAX30)'s web service containing a “Content-Type” of “multipartboundary=” will result in the request body being written to “/tmp/mulipartFile” on the device itself. A sufficiently large file will cause device resources to be exhausted, resulting in the device becoming unusable until it is rebooted.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • Denial of Service
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a NETGEAR Nighthawk WiFi6 Router (RAX30) Affected: All known versions
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