CVE-2021-21563 Denial of service in PowerScale OneFS

What is CVE-2021-21563?

CVE-2021-21563 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Dell Emc Powerscale Onefs, published on 2 Aug 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Dell EMC PowerScale OneFS versions 8.1.2-9.1.0.x contain an Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions in its auditing component.This can lead to an authenticated user with low-privileges to trigger a denial of service event.

Weakness: CWE-754

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-21563?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Dell Emc Powerscale Onefs.

How do I fix CVE-2021-21563?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-21563 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-2021-21563 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-21563 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Dell Emc Powerscale Onefs

• CVE-2021-21502 Auth bypass in PowerScale OneFS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26851 Information disclosure in PowerScale OneFS Critical 9.1
• CVE-2021-21506 Privilege escalation in PowerScale OneFS High 8.8
• CVE-2023-22575 Information disclosure in PowerScale OneFS High 8.7
• CVE-2021-21594 Information disclosure in PowerScale OneFS High 8.2

All Dell Emc Powerscale Onefs vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rmxw-pfxm-56jj.