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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-34036

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in O-RAN Near Realtime RIC I-Release. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker can disrupt the initial connection between a gNB and the Near RT-RIC by inundating the system with a high volume of subscription requests via an xApp.

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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