CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2025-40831 — A vulnerability has been identified in SINEC Security Monitor (All versions < V4.10.0)
High
CVSS 7.1
A vulnerability has been identified in SINEC Security Monitor (All versions < V4.10.0). The affected application lacks input validation of date parameter in report generation functionality. This could allow an authenticated, lowly privileged attacker to cause denial of service condition of the report functionality.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.1 (4.0)
- Published
- 2025-12-09
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Affected products
- siemens / sinec_security_monitor
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
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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