opennds — security advisory
An issue was discovered in OpenNDS Captive Portal before version 10.1.2. It has a NULL pointer dereference in preauthenticated() that can be triggered with a crafted GET HTTP request with a missing redirect query string parameter. Triggering this issue results in crashing OpenNDS (a Denial-of-Service condition). Affected OpenNDS Captive Portal before version 10.1.2 fixed infixed in OpenWrt master, OpenWrt 23.05 and OpenWrt 22.03 on28. August 2023 by updating OpenNDS to version 10.1.3.
- 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-2023-38314
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 15:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in OpenNDS Captive Portal before version 10.1.2. It has a NULL pointer dereference in preauthenticated() that can be triggered with a crafted GET HTTP request with a missing redirect query string parameter. Triggering this issue results in crashing OpenNDS (a Denial-of-Service condition). Affected OpenNDS Captive Portal before version 10.1.2 fixed infixed in OpenWrt master, OpenWrt 23.05 and OpenWrt 22.03 on28. August 2023 by updating OpenNDS to version 10.1.3.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38314
opennds
Fixed versions: Not specified
opennds
Fixed versions: 10.2.0+dfsg-1
Complete source record
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