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Description

Aerohive HiveOS contains a denial of service vulnerability in the NetConfig UI that allows unauthenticated attackers to render the web interface unusable. Attackers can send a crafted HTTP request to the action.php5 script with specific parameters to trigger a 5-minute service disruption.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-01-03 | Published 2026-01-06 | Updated 2026-01-06 | Assigner VulnCheck




HIGH: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem types

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Product status

<=11.x
affected

Credits

LiquidWorm as Gjoko Krstic of Zero Science Lab finder

References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48441 (ExploitDB-48441) exploit

www.extremenetworks.com (Extreme Networks Product Homepage) product

community.extremenetworks.com/...ngine_Hive_OS_Announcements (HiveOS Product Announcements) product

www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2020-5566.php (Zero Science Lab Disclosure (ZSL-2020-5566)) third-party-advisory

advisories.ncsc.nl/2020/ncsc-2020-0367.html (NCSC Security Advisory) third-party-advisory

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/181649 (IBM X-Force Vulnerability Exchange) vdb-entry

packetstorm.news/files/id/157587 (Packet Storm Security Exploit Entry) exploit

www.vulncheck.com/...nauthenticated-remote-denial-of-service (VulnCheck Advisory: Extreme Networks Aerohive HiveOS <=11.x 11.x Unauthenticated Remote Denial of Service) third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2020-36907)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2020-36907)

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