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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2023-39328

Severity Medium
Score 5.5/10

Summary

A vulnerability was found in OpenJPEG similar to CVE-2019-6988. This flaw allows attackers to bypass existing protections and cause an application crash through a maliciously crafted file.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • 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.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published