What is CVE-2021-28096?

CVE-2021-28096 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Stormshield Network Security, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-01-27.

How severe is CVE-2021-28096?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Stormshield Network Security

CVE-2021-28096

An issue was discovered in Stormshield SNS before 4.2.3 (when the proxy is used). An attacker can saturate the proxy connection table. This would result in the proxy denying any new connections.

EPSS: 0.009 (55.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Stormshield Stormshield_network_security
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-28096?: CVE-2021-28096 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Stormshield Network Security, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-01-27.
How severe is CVE-2021-28096?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.