CVE-2020-13530 Denial of service in EIP Stack Group

High 7.5 Published Updated

An attacker can cause a denial of service in the OpENer industrial protocol server by sending a high volume of network requests.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2020-13530?

CVE-2020-13530 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in EIP Stack Group, published on 11 Dec 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the Ethernet/IP server functionality of the EIP Stack Group OpENer 2.3 and development commit 8c73bf3. A large number of network requests in a small span of time can cause the running program to stop. An attacker can send a sequence of requests to trigger this vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-672, CWE-910

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-13530?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Opener Project Opener.

How do I fix CVE-2020-13530?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-13530 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2020-13530 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-13530 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-fv42-5hcx-5cr6.

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