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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-25615

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

An unauthenticated Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the Spectrum service accessed via the PAPI protocol in ArubaOS 8.x. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in the ability to interrupt the normal operation of the affected service.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • 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