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opennds — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38314

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

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38314

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 Nov 2023, 06:15 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38314",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "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.",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-26T18:02:30.198000923Z",
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        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38314"
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 456089,
  "published_at": "2023-11-17T06:15:33.53+00:00"
}