Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-15315 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Huawei products

047910
CVSS 6.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
huawei
CWE-772

Summary

Patch module of Huawei NIP6300 V500R001C20SPC100, V500R001C20SPC200, NIP6600 V500R001C20SPC100, V500R001C20SPC200, Secospace USG6300 V500R001C20SPC100, V500R001C20SPC200, Secospace USG6500 V500R001C20SPC100, V500R001C20SPC200 has a memory leak vulnerability. An authenticated attacker could execute special commands many times, the memory leaking happened, which would cause the device to reset finally.

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • HTTP DoS
    An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.