CVE-2006-0354

Cisco Aironet Wireless Access Points - Authenticated Denial of Service via ARP Table Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2006-0354. PoCs published by Pasv.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit sends maliciously crafted ARP reply packets to Cisco Aironet access points, causing memory exhaustion and a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. It leverages a vulnerability in ARP handling to flood the target with packets, leading to a crash.

Description

Cisco IOS before 12.3-7-JA2 on Aironet Wireless Access Points (WAP) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (termination of packet passing or termination of client connections) by sending the management interface a large number of spoofed ARP packets, which creates a large ARP table that exhausts memory, aka Bug ID CSCsc16644.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Pasv · cdoshardware
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1447

This exploit sends maliciously crafted ARP reply packets to Cisco Aironet access points, causing memory exhaustion and a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. It leverages a vulnerability in ARP handling to flood the target with packets, leading to a crash.

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Cisco Aironet 350 IOS, 1400, 1300, 1240AG, 1230AG, 1200, 1130AG, 1100
No auth needed
Prerequisites: root privileges · network access to the target device
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/339
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5680
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/22375
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0176
Patch, Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/18430
Exploit, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_cisco
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20060112-wireless.shtml
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24086
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16217
Patch vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015483

Scores

EPSS 0.1025
EPSS Percentile 95.1%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (8)
cisco/aironet_ap1100
cisco/aironet_ap1130ag
cisco/aironet_ap1200
cisco/aironet_ap1230ag
cisco/aironet_ap1240ag
cisco/aironet_ap1300
cisco/aironet_ap1400
cisco/aironet_ap350
Published Jan 22, 2006
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026