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CVE-2004-2549
Nortel Wireless LAN (WLAN) Access Point (AP) 2220, 2221, and 2225 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via…
Medium5.0EPSS 10.5%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.5% · top 4.2% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (7)
- 1009294 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 9787 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- nortel-accesspoint-telnet-dos(15373) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20040301 Nortel Networks Wireless LAN Access Point 2200 DoS + PoC (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 4128 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://www116.nortelnetworks.com/docs/bvdoc/wlan/216109a.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 11034 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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