CVE-2017-6198

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-02-06

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected products

• Sandstorm (Sandstorm)

References

• 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