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CVE-2020-9059 — Silabs 500 Series Firmware security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.5

Z-Wave devices based on Silicon Labs 500 series chipsets using S0 authentication are susceptible to uncontrolled resource consumption leading to battery exhaustion. As an example, the Schlage BE468 version 3.42 door lock is vulnerable and fails open at a low battery level.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.1)
Published
2022-01-10
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-770

Affected products

  • silabs / 500_series_firmware
  • schlage / be468 / 3.42

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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