CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2021-20679 — Fujixerox Docucentre-Vii C7773 Firmware security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.8

Fuji Xerox multifunction devices and printers (DocuCentre-VII C7773/C6673/C5573/C4473/C3373/C3372/C2273, DocuCentre-VII C7788/C6688/C5588, ApeosPort-VII C7773/C6673/C5573/C4473/C3373/C3372 C2273, ApeosPort-VII C7788/C6688/C5588, ApeosPort C7070/C6570/C5570/C4570/C3570/C3070/C7070G/C6570G/C5570G/C4570G/C3570G/C3070G, ApeosPort-VII C4421/C3321, ApeosPort C3060/C2560/C2060/C3060G/C2560G/C2060G, ApeosPort-VII CP4421, ApeosPort Print C5570, ApeosPort 5570/4570/5570G/4570G, ApeosPort 3560/3060/2560/3560G/3060G/2560G, ApeosPort-VII 5021/ 4021, ApeosPort-VII P5021, DocuPrint CP 555 d/505 d, DocuPrint P505 d, PrimeLink C9065/C9070, DocuPrint CP475AP, and DocuPrint P475AP) allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition and abnormal end (ABEND) of the affected products via sending a specially crafted command.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.8 (2.0)
Published
2021-03-25
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system

Affected products

  • fujixerox / docucentre-vii_c7773_firmware
  • fujixerox / docucentre-vii_c6673_firmware
  • fujixerox / docucentre-vii_c5573_firmware
  • fujixerox / docucentre-vii_c4473_firmware
  • fujixerox / docucentre-vii_c3373_firmware
  • fujixerox / docucentre-vii_c3372_firmware

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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

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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