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CVE-2023-44321 — Siemens 6Gk5205-3Bb00-2Ab2 Firmware security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.5

Affected devices do not properly validate the length of inputs when performing certain configuration changes in the web interface allowing an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service condition. The device needs to be restarted for the web interface to become available again.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.1)
Published
2023-11-14
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

  • siemens / 6gk5205-3bb00-2ab2_firmware
  • siemens / 6gk5205-3bb00-2tb2_firmware
  • siemens / 6gk5205-3bd00-2tb2_firmware
  • siemens / 6gk5205-3bd00-2ab2_firmware
  • siemens / 6gk5205-3bf00-2tb2_firmware
  • siemens / 6gk5205-3bf00-2ab2_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

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