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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2014-9697

High
7.5/10

Summary

Huawei USG9560/9520/9580 before V300R001C01SPC300 allows remote attackers to cause a memory leak or denial of service (memory exhaustion, reboot and MPU switchover) via a crafted website.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

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