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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2022-4896

Severity High
Score 8.2/10

Summary

Cyber Control, in its 1.650 version, is affected by a vulnerability in the generation on the server of pop-up windows with the messages "PNTMEDIDAS", "PEDIR", "HAYDISCOA" or "SPOOLER". A complete denial of service can be achieved by sending multiple requests simultaneously on a core.

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