The ProcessSSDPRequest function in minissdp.c in the SSDP handler in MiniUPnP MiniUPnPd before 1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denia…

published 2013-01-31 13y ago modified 2026-06-16 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-0263

cvss: 7.8; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 76.4%; EPSS 76.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.5%
public exploits: 4; Metasploit and Exploit-DB

The ProcessSSDPRequest function in minissdp.c in the SSDP handler in MiniUPnP MiniUPnPd before 1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a crafted request that triggers a buffer over-read.

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Timeline

2012-01-28 First public exploit (EDB-38249)
2013-01-31 Published

Exploit prediction

76.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

Metasploit auxiliary/dos/upnp/miniupnpd_dos MiniUPnPd 1.4 Denial of Service (DoS) Exploit metasploit auxiliary, normal rank, 2013-03-27
Metasploit auxiliary/scanner/upnp/ssdp_msearch UPnP SSDP M-SEARCH Information Discovery metasploit auxiliary, normal rank
EDB-38249 MiniUPnP 1.4 - Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities dos, 2012-01-28
EDB-37517 INFOMARK IMW-C920W MiniUPnPd 1.0 - Denial of Service dos, 2015-07-07

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	7.8	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2013-0229
NVD CVE-2013-0229

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