Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-3658 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
LOW
network
low complexity
siemens
intel
CWE-772
NVD
Published: 2018-09-12
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

Multiple memory leaks in Intel AMT in Intel CSME firmware versions before 12.0.5 may allow an unauthenticated user with Intel AMT provisioned to potentially cause a partial denial of service via network access.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Siemens
33
OS
Intel
70
Hardware
Siemens
11
Application
Intel
6

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

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.

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