CVE-2017-6198 Information

Description

The Supervisor in Sandstorm doesn’t set and enforce the resource limits of a process. This 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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://devco.re/blog/2018/01/26/Sandstorm-Security-Review-CVE-2017-6200-en/ https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/v0.202/src/sandstorm/supervisor.c++L824

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5