CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2017-7935 — A Resource Exhaustion issue was discovered in Phoenix Contact GmbH mGuard firmware versions 8.3.0 to 8.4.2
High
CVSS 7.8
A Resource Exhaustion issue was discovered in Phoenix Contact GmbH mGuard firmware versions 8.3.0 to 8.4.2. An attacker may compromise the device's availability by performing multiple initial VPN requests.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.8 (2.0)
- Published
- 2017-05-19
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Affected products
- phoenix_contact_gmbh / mguard_firmware / 8.3.0
- phoenix_contact_gmbh / mguard_firmware / 8.3.1
- phoenix_contact_gmbh / mguard_firmware / 8.3.2
- phoenix_contact_gmbh / mguard_firmware / 8.4.0
- phoenix_contact_gmbh / mguard_firmware / 8.4.1
- phoenix_contact_gmbh / mguard_firmware / 8.4.2
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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