Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-29884 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Siemens products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
A vulnerability has been identified in CP-8000 MASTER MODULE WITH I/O -25/+70°C (All versions < CPC80 V16.30), CP-8000 MASTER MODULE WITH I/O -40/+70°C (All versions < CPC80 V16.30), CP-8021 MASTER MODULE (All versions < CPC80 V16.30), CP-8022 MASTER MODULE WITH GPRS (All versions < CPC80 V16.30). When using the HTTPS server under specific conditions, affected devices do not properly free resources. This could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to put the device into a denial of service condition.
Vulnerable Configurations
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.