CVE-2024-46891 Denial of service in SINEC INS
An unauthenticated remote attacker can exhaust system resources by triggering excessive log events, causing a denial of service in Siemens SINEC INS.
- 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-2024-46891?
CVE-2024-46891 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Siemens SINEC INS, published on 12 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability has been identified in SINEC INS (All versions < V1.0 SP2 Update 3). The affected application does not properly restrict the size of generated log files. This could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to trigger a large amount of logged events to exhaust the system's resources and create a denial of service condition.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-46891?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Siemens Sinec Ins.
How do I fix CVE-2024-46891?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-46891 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-2024-46891 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-46891 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Siemens SINEC INS
Sources
Also known as GHSA-775q-3335-qhjr.