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CVE-2013-20004 — A flaw was found in StarWind iSCSI target

Critical CVSS 9.8

A flaw was found in StarWind iSCSI target. StarWind service does not limit client connections and allocates memory on each connection attempt. An attacker could create a denial of service state by trying to connect a non-existent target multiple times. This affects iSCSI SAN (Windows Native) Version 6.0, build 2013-01-16.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.8 (3.1)
Published
2022-02-06
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
windows/system
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

  • starwindsoftware / iscsi_san

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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