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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2019-9583

High
8.2/10

Summary

eQ-3 Homematic CCU2 and CCU3 obtain session IDs without login. This allows a Denial of Service and is a starting point for other attacks. Affected versions for CCU2: 2.35.16, 2.41.5, 2.41.8, 2.41.9, 2.45.6, 2.45.7, 2.47.10, 2.47.12, 2.47.15. Affected versions for CCU3: 3.41.11, 3.43.16, 3.45.5, 3.45.7, 3.47.10, 3.47.15.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • 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