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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2018-19037

High
7.5/10

Summary

On Virgin Media wireless router 3.0 hub devices, the web interface is vulnerable to denial of service. When POST requests are sent and keep the connection open, the router lags and becomes unusable to anyone currently using the web interface.

  • 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