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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2013-2763

Medium
5/10

Summary

The Schneider Electric M340 PLC modules allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors. NOTE: the vendor reportedly disputes this issue because it "could not be duplicated" and "an attacker could not remotely exploit this observed behavior to deny PLC control functions.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

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