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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2023-51847

High
7.5/10

Summary

An issue in obgm and Libcoap v.a3ed466 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via thecoap_context_t function in the src/coap_threadsafe.c:297:3 component.

  • 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