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Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

CVE-2021-40872

High
7.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Softing Industrial Automation uaToolkit Embedded before 1.40. Remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) or login as an anonymous user (bypassing security checks) by sending crafted messages to a OPC/UA server. The server process may crash unexpectedly because of an invalid type cast, and must be restarted.

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

CWE-843 - Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

The program allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.

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  • Published