CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2021-26581 — A potential security vulnerability has been identified in HPE Superdome Flex server

Medium CVSS 6.5

A potential security vulnerability has been identified in HPE Superdome Flex server. A denial of service attack can be remotely exploited leaving hung connections to the BMC web interface. The monarch BMC must be rebooted to recover from this situation. Other BMC management is not impacted. HPE has made the following software update to resolve the vulnerability in HPE Superdome Flex Server: Superdome Flex Server Firmware 3.30.142 or later.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.1)
Published
2021-04-01
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system

Affected products

  • hpe / superdome_flex_server_firmware

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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