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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2019-6015

High
7.5/10

Summary

FON2601E-SE, FON2601E-RE, FON2601E-FSW-S, and FON2601E-FSW-B with firmware versions 1.1.7 and earlier contain an issue where they may behave as open resolvers. If this vulnerability is exploited, FON routers may be leveraged for DNS amplification attacks to some other entities.

  • 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