Insufficient Resource Pool in Siemens products - CVE-2019-10942
Published: August 21, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU20349
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10942
CWE-ID:
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Siemens
Affected software:
SCALANCE X-200RNA
SCALANCE X-200 IRT
SCALANCE X-200
SCALANCE X-200RNA
SCALANCE X-200 IRT
SCALANCE X-200
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the device's resource pool is not large enough to handle peak demand. A remote attacker can send large message packages repeatedly to the telnet service and cause a denial of service condition.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-10942
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.