SB2019020503 - DDoS attack in Ubiquiti devices
Published: February 5, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019020503
Severity
High
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) DDoS attack (CVE-ID: N/A)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to conduct DDoS attack.The weakness exists due to a flaw in a "discovery service" running on port 10001/UDP. A remote attacker can send small packets of 56 bytes to port 10001/UDP on Ubiquiti devices, which are reflecting and relaying the packets to a target's IP address amplified to a size of 206 bytes (amplification factor of 3.67).
Note: the vulnerability has been actively exploited since July 2018.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.