CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2023-7163 — Dlink D-View 8 security vulnerability

Critical CVSS 10

A security issue exists in D-Link D-View 8 v2.0.2.89 and prior that could allow an attacker to manipulate the probe inventory of the D-View service. This could result in the disclosure of information from other probes, denial of service conditions due to the probe inventory becoming full, or the execution of tasks on other probes.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
10 (3.1)
Published
2023-12-28
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Affected products

  • dlink / d-view_8 / 2.0.2.89

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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