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CVE-2020-5603 — Uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electoric FA Engineering Software (CPU Module Logging Configuration Tool Ver

High CVSS 7.5

Uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electoric FA Engineering Software (CPU Module Logging Configuration Tool Ver. 1.94Y and earlier, CW Configurator Ver. 1.010L and earlier, EM Software Development Kit (EM Configurator) Ver. 1.010L and earlier, GT Designer3 (GOT2000) Ver. 1.221F and earlier, GX LogViewer Ver. 1.96A and earlier, GX Works2 Ver. 1.586L and earlier, GX Works3 Ver. 1.058L and earlier, M_CommDTM-HART Ver. 1.00A, M_CommDTM-IO-Link Ver. 1.02C and earlier, MELFA-Works Ver. 4.3 and earlier, MELSEC-L Flexible High-Speed I/O Control Module Configuration Tool Ver.1.004E and earlier, MELSOFT FieldDeviceConfigurator Ver. 1.03D and earlier, MELSOFT iQ AppPortal Ver. 1.11M and earlier, MELSOFT Navigator Ver. 2.58L and earlier, MI Configurator Ver. 1.003D and earlier, Motion Control Setting Ver. 1.005F and earlier, MR Configurator2 Ver. 1.72A and earlier, MT Works2 Ver. 1.156N and earlier, RT ToolBox2 Ver. 3.72A and earlier, and RT ToolBox3 Ver. 1.50C and earlier) allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition attacks via unspecified vectors.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2020-06-30
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

  • mitsubishielectric / cpu_module_logging_configuration_tool
  • mitsubishielectric / cw_configurator
  • mitsubishielectric / em_configurator
  • mitsubishielectric / gt_designer3
  • mitsubishielectric / gx_logviewer
  • mitsubishielectric / gx_works2

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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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