CVE-2020-29490 vulnerability in Dell Products
Published on January 5, 2021
Dell EMC Unity, Unity XT, and UnityVSA versions prior to 5.0.4.0.5.012 contain a Denial of Service vulnerability on NAS Servers with NFS exports. A remote authenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability and cause Denial of Service (Storage Processor Panic) by sending specially crafted UDP requests.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2020-29490 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability?
The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
CVE-2020-29490 has been classified to as a Resource Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2020-29490
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Affected Versions
Dell Unity:- Version unspecified and below 5.0.4.0.5.012 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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