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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2023-37195

Medium
4.4/10

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC CP 1604 (All versions), SIMATIC CP 1616 (All versions), SIMATIC CP 1623 (All versions), SIMATIC CP 1626 (All versions), SIMATIC CP 1628 (All versions). Affected devices insufficiently control continuous mapping of direct memory access (DMA) requests. This could allow local attackers with administrative privileges to cause a denial of service situation on the host. A physical power cycle is required to get the system working again.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • 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