Vulnerability CVE-2021-20201
Published: 2021-05-28

Description:
A flaw was found in spice in versions before 0.14.92. A DoS tool might make it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by performing many renegotiations within a single connection.

Type:

CWE-400

 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Spice project -> Spice 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 

 References:
https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2011/10/31/tls-renegotiation-and-denial-of-service-attacks
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1921846
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