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VAR-202203-1868

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2024-11-23 23:03

ASUS AC68U <=3.0.0.4.385.20852 is affected by a buffer overflow in blocking.cgi, which may cause a denial of service (DoS). ASUSTeK Computer Inc. ASUS AC68U is a router from China ASUS (ASUS). The vulnerability is caused by incorrect validation of data boundaries when performing operations on memory in blocking.cgi

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CVE-2021-45757 (GCVE-0-2021-45757)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-03-23 10:55 – Updated: 2026-07-09 00:16

Summary

ASUS AC68U <=3.0.0.4.385.20852 is affected by a buffer overflow in blocking.cgi, which may cause a denial of service (DoS).

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root Scorecard

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/IBUILI/Asus

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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