Denial of service in MetPX Sarracenia



Published: 2020-04-21
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID N/A
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
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sarracenia
Server applications / Other server solutions

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Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU27049

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: N/A

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to recursion in the connection recovery is vulnerable to stack exhaustion on long failures. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

sarracenia: 2.15.12a1 - 2.20.04b1

External links

http://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-METPXSARRACENIA-565720
http://github.com/MetPX/sarracenia/commit/b1b78e1a1fcfe08fe81dee2840aa29d71becda65


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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