CVE-2016-10227 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Zyxel USG50 Security Appliances and NWA3560-N Access Points. Remote attackers can exploit this by flooding the devices with ICMPv4 Port Unreachable packets, leading to high CPU consumption and service disruption. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required, resulting in a complete loss of availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor is public exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:usg50_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:nwa3560-n_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.