CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2017-12741 — Specially crafted packets sent to port 161/udp could cause a denial of service condition

High CVSS 8.7

Specially crafted packets sent to port 161/udp could cause a denial of service condition. The affected devices must be restarted manually.

Severity: High
CVSS: 8.7 (4.0)
Published: 2017-12-26
CISA KEV: Not currently listed
Ecosystem: operating-system
Weaknesses: CWE-400

Affected products

siemens / simatic_s7-200_firmware
siemens / simatic_s7-400pn_v6_firmware
siemens / simatic_s7-400h_v6_firmware
siemens / simatic_s7-400pn/dp_v7_firmware
siemens / simatic_s7-410_v8_firmware
siemens / simatic_s7-300_firmware

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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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