HighFix available
opennds — security advisory
OpenNDS, as used in Sierra Wireless ALEOS before 4.17.0.12 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, daemon crash, and Captive Portal outage) via a GET request to /opennds_auth/ that lacks a custom query string parameter and client-token.
- Products
- opennds
- Affected versions
- 10.2.0+dfsg-1, 10.3.0+dfsg-0.1, 10.3.1+dfsg-1, 9.10.0-1
- Fixed versions
- 10.2.0+dfsg-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-38321
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 15:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
OpenNDS, as used in Sierra Wireless ALEOS before 4.17.0.12 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, daemon crash, and Captive Portal outage) via a GET request to /opennds_auth/ that lacks a custom query string parameter and client-token.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38321
opennds
Fixed versions: Not specified
opennds
Fixed versions: 10.2.0+dfsg-1
Complete source record
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