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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2019-17657

High
7.5/10

Summary

An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Fortinet FortiSwitch below 3.6.11, 6.0.6 and 6.2.2, FortiAnalyzer below 6.2.3, FortiManager below 6.2.3 and FortiAP-S/W2 below 6.2.2 may allow an attacker to cause admin webUI denial of service (DoS) via handling special crafted HTTP requests/responses in pieces slowly, as demonstrated by Slow HTTP DoS Attacks.

  • 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