Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-12134 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Nanometrics Centaur and Titansma

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
nanometrics
CWE-772
critical

Summary

Nanometrics Centaur through 4.3.23 and TitanSMA through 4.2.20 mishandle access control for the syslog log.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Nanometrics
2

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.