Resource exhaustion in Siemens products - CVE-2021-41546

 

Resource exhaustion in Siemens products - CVE-2021-41546

Published: October 15, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU57385
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-2021-41546
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 application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1510
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1511
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1512
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1524
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1536
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX5000

How to mitigate CVE-2021-41546

Install updates from vendor's website.

RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000 - update to 2.14.1
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400 - update to 2.14.1
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500 - update to 2.14.1
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501 - update to 2.14.1
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1510 - update to 2.14.1
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1511 - update to 2.14.1
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1512 - update to 2.14.1
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1524 - update to 2.14.1
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1536 - update to 2.14.1
RUGGEDCOM ROX RX5000 - update to 2.14.1

External References

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