PT-2018-8316 · Sandstorm · Sandstorm

Published 2018-02-06 · Updated 2018-03-13 · CVE-2017-6198

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Sandstorm (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by launching a fork bomb in the sandbox or by using a large amount of disk space, due to the Supervisor in Sandstorm not setting and enforcing the resource limits of a process.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-6198

Affected Products

Sandstorm

References · 5

• 🔥 https://devco.re/blog/2018/01/26/Sandstorm-Security-Review-CVE-2017-6200-en · Exploit
• 🔥 https://devco.re/blog/2018/01/26/Sandstorm-Security-Review-CVE-2017-6200 · Exploit
• https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/v0.202/src/sandstorm/supervisor.c++#L824 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-6198 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6198 · Security Note