CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2023-45028 — An uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability has been reported to affect several QNAP operating system versions

Medium CVSS 5.5

An uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability has been reported to affect several QNAP operating system versions. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow authenticated administrators to launch a denial-of-service (DoS) attack via a network. We have already fixed the vulnerability in the following versions: QTS 5.1.5.2645 build 20240116 and later QuTS hero h5.1.5.2647 build 20240118 and later QuTScloud c5.1.5.2651 and later

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2024-02-02
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-770

Affected products

  • qnap / qts / 5.1.0.2348
  • qnap / qts / 5.1.0.2399
  • qnap / qts / 5.1.0.2418
  • qnap / qts / 5.1.0.2444
  • qnap / qts / 5.1.0.2466
  • qnap / qts / 5.1.1.2491

Showing 6 representative product identities from 20 source matches. Confirm exact affected versions with the linked vendor and NVD evidence.

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

This catalog composition supplies bounded fallback guidance. Explicitly reviewed curated workflows load with the complete record below.

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

The detailed catalog view below loads this exact record, its source evidence, and the full seven-phase agentic change plan.