CVE-1999-1548 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Cabletron SmartSwitch Router (SSR) 8000 firmware 2.x. The router's limited capacity to process 200 ARP requests per second allows an attacker to overwhelm it with a flood of ARP requests, leading to service disruption. This vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.0, indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:cabletron:smartswitch_router_8000_firmware:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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