CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2023-1488 — A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Lespeed WiseCleaner Wise System Monitor 1.5.3.54

Medium CVSS 5.5

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Lespeed WiseCleaner Wise System Monitor 1.5.3.54. Affected is the function 0x9C40A0D8/0x9C40A0DC/0x9C40A0E0 in the library WiseHDInfo64.dll of the component IoControlCode Handler. The manipulation leads to denial of service. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. VDB-223374 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2023-03-18
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-404

Affected products

  • wisecleaner / wise_system_monitor / 1.5.3.54

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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