CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2020-7484 — Schneider-Electric Tristation 1131 security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

**VERSION NOT SUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED** A vulnerability with the former 'password' feature could allow a denial of service attack if the user is not following documented guidelines pertaining to dedicated TriStation connection and key-switch protection. This vulnerability was discovered and remediated in versions v4.9.1 and v4.10.1 on May 30, 2013. This feature is not present in version v4.9.1 and v4.10.1 through current. Therefore, the vulnerability is not present in these versions.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2020-04-16
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application

Affected products

  • schneider-electric / tristation_1131

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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