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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-28717

Medium
4.9/10

Summary

An issue in OpenStack Storlets yoga-eom allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the "gateway.py" component. This issue affects storlets versions prior to 13.0.0.0rc1.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • 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