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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2022-33939

High
7.5/10

Summary

CENTUM VP / CS 3000 controller FCS (CP31, CP33, CP345, CP401, and CP451) contains an issue in processing communication packets, which may lead to resource consumption. If this vulnerability is exploited, an attacker may cause a denial of service (DoS) condition in ADL communication by sending a specially crafted packet to the affected product.

  • 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