Security advisory - CVE-2019-9228

SSH and TELNET DoS (connection slot exhaustion) in AudioCodes Mediant family

Affected Products

Background

AudioCodes Mediant family of multi-service business routers (MSBRs) offers service providers a range of all-in-one SOHO, SMB and SME routers combining access, data, voice and security into a single device.[1]
During our research we found a DoS(CVE-2019-9228), a XXS(CVE-2019-9230) and CSRF(CVE-2019-9231) vulnerability. Although we could gain access to quagga VTYs(CVE-2019-9229).

References

Description

The management SSH and management TELNET features allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection slot exhaustion) via 5 unauthenticated connection attempts, because the maximum number of unauthenticated clients that can be configured is 5.

Affected Versions

F7.20A at least to 7.20A.252.062.
The vendor's position is that this is a design choice, because having a higher value would put a higher load on the system resources. There will be no fix, because the Risk is classified as acceptable.

Mitigation

Restrict the access to the interfaces via Access Lists.

Disclosure Timeline

2019/02/14 vendor contacted
2019/02/14 initial vendor response
2019/02/14 vendor informs about start of review process
2019/02/15 vendor requests further details
2019/02/15 further details provided
2019/02/18 vendor informs about detail analysis
2019/02/19 vendor confirmation, planned fixes and roadmap provided
2019/03/01 CVEs assigned
2019/06/28 vendor informs that planned fixes are published

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