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Ubiquiti Discovery Traffic Amplification

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Ubiquiti Discovery Traffic Amplification

Severity
1
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/29/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/04/2019
Modified
02/04/2019

Description

The Ubiquiti Discovery (ubnt-discover) protocol suffers from allowing UDP amplification attacks, which can be used against other assets typically in the form of distributed reflected denial of service (DRDoS) attacks. The amplification factor for this protocol is 30-35x the size of the request.

Solution(s)

  • ubnt-discover-restrict

References

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