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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-30915

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in OpenDDS commit b1c534032bb62ad4ae32609778de6b8d6c823a66, allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service and obtain sensitive information via the max_samples parameter within the DataReaderQoS component.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
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  • LOW
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CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published