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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2017-12077

Medium
4.9/10

Summary

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in SYNO.Core.PortForwarding.Rules in Synology Router Manager (SRM) before 1.1.4-6509 allows remote authenticated attacker to exhaust the memory resources of the machine, causing a denial of service attack.

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