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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2022-22724

High
7.5/10

Summary

A CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability exists that could cause a denial of service on ports 80 (HTTP) and 502 (Modbus), when sending a large number of TCP RST or FIN packets to any open TCP port of the PLC. Affected Product: Modicon M340 CPUs: BMXP34 (All Versions)

  • 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