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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2022-31482

An unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted unauthenticated HTTP request to the device that can overflow a buffer.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.02%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.02%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted unauthenticated HTTP request to the device that can overflow a buffer. This vulnerability impacts products based on HID Mercury Intelligent Controllers LP1501, LP1502, LP2500, LP4502, and EP4502 which contain firmware versions prior to 1.29. The overflowed data leads to segmentation fault and ultimately a denial-of-service condition, causing the device to reboot. The impact of this vulnerability is that an unauthenticated attacker could leverage this flaw to cause the target device to become unresponsive. An attacker could automate this attack to achieve persistent DoS, effectively rendering the target controller useless.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.02% probability · 62th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-120
Affected
hidglobal/lp1501 firmware · hidglobal/lp1502 firmware · hidglobal/lp2500 firmware · hidglobal/lp4502 firmware · hidglobal/ep4502 firmware · carrier/lenels2 lnl-4420 firmware · carrier/lenels2 lnl-x2210 firmware · carrier/lenels2 lnl-x2220 firmware · carrier/lenels2 lnl-x3300 firmware · carrier/lenels2 lnl-x4420 firmware · carrier/lenels2 s2-lp-1501 firmware · carrier/lenels2 s2-lp-1502 firmware · carrier/lenels2 s2-lp-2500 firmware · carrier/lenels2 s2-lp-4502 firmware
Source
productsecurity@carrier.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.