CVE-2014-3648: redhat jboss_aerogear Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-3648 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in redhat jboss_aerogear. EPSS estimates a 0.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 01-07-2022
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The simplepush server iterates through the application installations and pushes a notification to the server provided by deviceToken. But this is user controlled. If a bogus applications is registered with bad deviceTokens, one can generate endless exceptions when those endpoints can't be reached or can slow the server down by purposefully wasting it's time with slow endpoints. Similarly, one can provide whatever HTTP end point they want. This turns the server into a DDOS vector or an anonymizer for the posting of malware and so on.

• CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionThe product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.