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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-51513

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

Vulnerability of processes not being fully terminated in the VPN module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will affect power consumption.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • 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