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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-42426

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

Dell PowerScale OneFS Versions 9.5.0.x through 9.8.0.x contain an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability. A low privilege remote attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to denial of service.

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