CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2017-20015 — A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in WEKA INTEREST Security Scanner up to 1.8
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in WEKA INTEREST Security Scanner up to 1.8. This affects an unknown part of the component LAN Viewer. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to denial of service. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.5 (3.1)
- Published
- 2022-03-28
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-404
Affected products
- weka / interest_security_scanner
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
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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