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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2018-10632

High
7.5/10

Summary

In Moxa NPort 5210, 5230, and 5232 versions 2.9 build 17030709 and prior, the amount of resources requested by a malicious actor are not restricted, allowing for a denial-of-service condition.

  • 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