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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-21126

Medium
5.8/10

Summary

Vulnerability in the Oracle Database Portable Clusterware component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 19.3-19.23 and 21.3-21.14. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via DNS to compromise Oracle Database Portable Clusterware. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Database Portable Clusterware, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Database Portable Clusterware. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.8 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L).

  • LOW
  • 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