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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2023-45196

Medium
6.9/10

Summary

Adminer and AdminerEvo allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by connecting to an attacker-controlled service that responds with HTTP redirects. The Denial of Service (DoS) is subject to PHP configuration limits. Adminer is no longer supported, but this issue was fixed in AdminerEvo. This issue affects the package vrana/adminer versions prior to 4.8.4.

  • LOW
  • 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