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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2021-32503

Medium
4.9/10

Summary

Unauthenticated users can access sensitive web URLs through GET request, which should be restricted to maintenance users only. A malicious attacker could use this sensitive information’s to launch further attacks on the system.

  • 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.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published