CVE-1999-1548: Cabletron Smartswitch Router 8000 Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cabletron SmartSwitch Router (SSR) 8000 firmware 2.x can only handle 200 ARP requests per second allowing a denial of service attack to succeed with a flood of ARP requests exceeding that limit.

Affected products

• Cabletron Smartswitch Router 8000 Firmware: version 2.0 only

Published 1999-11-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.