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Edimax BR-6208AC V1 devices have Insufficient Compartmentalization between a host network and a guest network that are established by the same device

Published Aug 27, 2019

Description

Edimax BR-6208AC V1 devices have Insufficient Compartmentalization between a host network and a guest network that are established by the same device. They forward ARP requests, which are sent as broadcast packets, between the host and the guest networks. To use this leakage as a direct covert channel, the sender can trivially issue an ARP request to an arbitrary computer on the network. (In general, some routers restrict ARP forwarding only to requests destined for the network's subnet mask, but these routers did not restrict this traffic in any way. Depending on this factor, one must use either the lower 8 bits of the IP address, or the entire 32 bits, as the data payload.)

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Remediation

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References (2)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Aug 27, 2019
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Jul 4, 2019
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a