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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2023-39610

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

An issue in TP-Link Tapo C100 v1.1.15 Build 211130 Rel.15378n(4555) and before allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted web request.

  • LOW
  • ADJACENT_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