Authenticated denial of service via unbounded password hashing
Published May 30, 2023 · Updated Jan 10, 2025
Resource exhaustion in FIT2CLOUD MeterSphere 2.9.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a service hang via login. UserLoginService.checkUserPassword passes an attacker-controlled, unbounded password to CodingUtil.md5, consuming CPU and memory before credential validation. A valid user identifier and network access to the login endpoint are sufficient; the consequence is prolonged application unavailability without reported data exposure or modification.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in FIT2CLOUD MeterSphere 2.9.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a service hang via login. UserLoginService.checkUserPassword passes an attacker-controlled, unbounded password to CodingUtil.md5, consuming CPU and memory before credential validation. A valid user identifier and network access to the login endpoint are sufficient; the consequence is prolonged application unavailability without reported data exposure or modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-32699
- Published
- May 30, 2023
- Updated
- Jan 10, 2025
- Vendor
- FIT2CLOUD
- Product
- MeterSphere
- Classifications
- CWE-770, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 30, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 10, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 2.10
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