CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2019-13555 — Mitsubishielectric Q03/04/06/13/26Udvcpu Firmware security vulnerability
In Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC-Q Series Q03/04/06/13/26UDVCPU: serial number 21081 and prior, Q04/06/13/26UDPVCPU: serial number 21081 and prior, and Q03UDECPU, Q04/06/10/13/20/26/50/100UDEHCPU: serial number 21081 and prior, MELSEC-L Series L02/06/26CPU, L26CPU-BT: serial number 21101 and prior, L02/06/26CPU-P, L26CPU-PBT: serial number 21101 and prior, and L02/06/26CPU-CM, L26CPU-BT-CM: serial number 21101 and prior, a remote attacker can cause the FTP service to enter a denial-of-service condition dependent on the timing at which a remote attacker connects to the FTP server on the above CPU modules.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.9 (3.1)
- Published
- 2019-11-13
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Affected products
- mitsubishielectric / q03/04/06/13/26udvcpu_firmware
- mitsubishielectric / q04/06/13/26udpvcpu_firmware
- mitsubishielectric / q03udecpu_firmware
- mitsubishielectric / q04/06/10/13/20/26/50/100udehcpu_firmware
- mitsubishielectric / l02/06/26cpu_firmware
- mitsubishielectric / l26cpu-bt_firmware
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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