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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2023-43775

Medium
4.7/10

Summary

Denial-of-service vulnerability in the web server of the Eaton SMP Gateway allows attacker to potentially force an unexpected restart of the automation platform, impacting the availability of the product. In rare situations, the issue could cause the SMP device to restart in Safe Mode or Max Safe Mode. When in Max Safe Mode, the product is not vulnerable anymore.

  • LOW
  • ADJACENT_NETWORK
  • NONE
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW

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