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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2020-8123

Severity Medium
Score 4.9/10

Summary

A denial of service exists in strapi versions before 3.0.0-beta.18.4, and between 3.0.0-next.0 and 3.0.0-next.38 that can be abused in the admin console using admin rights can lead to arbitrary restart of the application.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • 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.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published