What is CVE-2017-11521?

CVE-2017-11521 is a high-severity vulnerability in Resiprocate, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-07-22.

How severe is CVE-2017-11521?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Resiprocate

CVE-2017-11521

The SdpContents::Session::Medium::parse function in resip/stack/SdpContents.cxx in reSIProcate 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering many media connections.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.023 (81.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Resiprocate — versions 1.10.2
Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0, 9.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11521?: CVE-2017-11521 is a high-severity vulnerability in Resiprocate, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-07-22.
How severe is CVE-2017-11521?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.