CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2021-21563 — Dell Emc Powerscale Onefs security vulnerability
Medium
CVSS 6.5
Dell EMC PowerScale OneFS versions 8.1.2-9.1.0.x contain an Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions in its auditing component.This can lead to an authenticated user with low-privileges to trigger a denial of service event.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.5 (3.1)
- Published
- 2021-08-03
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-754
Affected products
- dell / emc_powerscale_onefs / 8.1.3
- dell / emc_powerscale_onefs / 8.2.1
- dell / emc_powerscale_onefs / 8.2.2
- dell / emc_powerscale_onefs / 9.0.0.0
- dell / emc_powerscale_onefs / 9.1.0.0
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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