CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2015-10103 — A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in InternalError503 Forget It up to 1.3

Medium CVSS 5.5

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in InternalError503 Forget It up to 1.3. This affects an unknown part of the file js/settings.js. The manipulation of the argument setForgetTime with the input 0 leads to infinite loop. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. Upgrading to version 1.4 is able to address this issue. The patch is named adf0c7fd59b9c935b4fd675c556265620124999c. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-226119.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2023-04-17
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-835

Affected products

  • forget_it_project / forget_it

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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