CERT/CC Reports Vulnerability in Universal Plug and Play Protocol

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CERT/CC Reports Vulnerability in Universal Plug and Play Protocol [ 
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2020/06/09/certcc-reports-vulnerability-universal-plug-and-play-protocol 
] 06/09/2020 12:05 PM EDT 
Original release date: June 9, 2020

The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has released information on a vulnerabilityCVE-2020-12695affecting versions of 
the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol released before April 17, 2020. UPnP protocol allows networked devices to 
discover and connect with each other. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a distributed 
denial-of-service condition.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages vendors and internet service providers (ISPs) to 
review CERT/CCs Vulnerability Note VU#339275 [ https://www.us-cert.gov%20https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/339275 ] and 
implement the updated specifications [ 
https://openconnectivity.org/upnp-specs/UPnP-arch-DeviceArchitecture-v2.0-20200417.pdf ] provided by the Open 
Connectivity Framework.

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