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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2020-7486

High
7.5/10

Summary

**VERSION NOT SUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED** A vulnerability could cause TCM modules to reset when under high network load in TCM v10.4.x and in system v10.3.x. This vulnerability was discovered and remediated in version v10.5.x on August 13, 2009. TCMs from v10.5.x and on will no longer exhibit this behavior.

  • 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