CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2024-1188 — A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Rizone Soft Notepad3 1.0.2.350

Medium CVSS 5.5

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Rizone Soft Notepad3 1.0.2.350. Affected is an unknown function of the component Encryption Passphrase Handler. The manipulation leads to denial of service. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. VDB-252678 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2024-02-02
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-404

Affected products

  • rizonesoft / notepad3 / 1.0.2.350

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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