Opengauss
CVE-2024-40575
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Resource consumption limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 5.5 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A local attacker with access to the system could cause denial of service by exhausting system resources. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
An issue in Huawei Technologies opengauss (openGauss 5.0.0 build) v.7.3.0 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the modification of table attributes. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Implement rate limiting, set resource quotas, validate input sizes, use timeouts.
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This vulnerability is classified as Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400), which allows attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources. An issue in Huawei Technologies opengauss (openGauss 5.0.0 build) v.7.3.0 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the modification of table attributes Affected products include: Huawei Opengauss.
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AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
An issue in Huawei Technologies opengauss (openGauss 5.0.0 build) v.7.3.0 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the modification of table attributes
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Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
Unsafe reflective class loading in openGauss-connector-jdbc's LogFactory lets an attacker who controls the JDBC 'logger'
Missing authorization in openGauss Server 3.0.0 through 6.0.0 lets any authenticated low-privilege database user read ra
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