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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2020-27295

High
7.5/10

Summary

The affected product has uncontrolled resource consumption issues, which may allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition on the OPC UA Tunneller (versions prior to 6.3.0.8233).

  • 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