CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2024-4292 — A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Contemporary Controls BASrouter BACnet BASRT-B 2.7.2

Medium CVSS 6.5

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Contemporary Controls BASrouter BACnet BASRT-B 2.7.2. Affected is an unknown function of the component Device-Communication-Control Service. The manipulation with the input 55ff0500370015f30104025506110afb7519035d0841e4bece257b6acfc71f leads to denial of service. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-262224. NOTE: The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.1)
Published
2024-04-27
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-404

Affected products

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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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