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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2020-35559

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in MB CONNECT LINE mymbCONNECT24 and mbCONNECT24 through 2.6.2. There is an unused function that allows an authenticated attacker to use up all available IPs of an account and thus not allow creation of new devices and users.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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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