Softing Industrial Automation up to 4.46.x resource consumption

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Softing Industrial Automation up to 4.46.x. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Such manipulation leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2020-14522. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Softing Industrial Automation up to 4.46.x (Automation Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Softing Industrial Automation all versions prior to the latest build of version 4.47.0, The affected product is vulnerable to uncontrolled resource consumption, which may allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition.

The weakness was presented 08/25/2020 (Website). The advisory is available at us-cert.cisa.gov. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-14522 since 06/19/2020. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 4.47.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Automation Software

Vendor

• Softing

Name

• Industrial Automation

Version

• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4
• 4.5
• 4.6
• 4.7
• 4.8
• 4.9
• 4.10
• 4.11
• 4.12
• 4.13
• 4.14
• 4.15
• 4.16
• 4.17
• 4.18
• 4.19
• 4.20
• 4.21
• 4.22
• 4.23
• 4.24
• 4.25
• 4.26
• 4.27
• 4.28
• 4.29
• 4.30
• 4.31
• 4.32
• 4.33
• 4.34
• 4.35
• 4.36
• 4.37
• 4.38
• 4.39
• 4.40
• 4.41
• 4.42
• 4.43
• 4.44
• 4.45
• 4.46

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