Resource exhaustion in Aedes - CVE-2020-13410
Published: September 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU46287
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-13410
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the "lib/write.js" does not properly consider exceptions during the writing of an invalid packet to a stream. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Aedes
How to mitigate CVE-2020-13410
Install updates from vendor's website.
Aedes - update to 0.42.1