A CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability exists that could cause a denial of service on ports 80 (HTTP) and 502 (Modbus),
A CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability exists that could cause a denial of service on ports 80 (HTTP) and 502 (Modbus), when sending a large number of TCP RST or FIN packets to any open TCP port of the PLC. Affected Product: Modicon M340 CPUs: BMXP34 (All Versions)
- Published
- Feb 4, 2022
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.9% · 59th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-400
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Action score
30
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.9%
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We use this product, ask for helpAffected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| schneider-electric | modicon m340 bmxp341000 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:schneider-electric:modicon_m340_bmxp341000_firmware |
| schneider-electric | modicon m340 bmxp341000 | cpe:2.3:h:schneider-electric:modicon_m340_bmxp341000 |
| schneider-electric | modicon m340 bmxp342000 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:schneider-electric:modicon_m340_bmxp342000_firmware |
| schneider-electric | modicon m340 bmxp342000 | cpe:2.3:h:schneider-electric:modicon_m340_bmxp342000 |
| schneider-electric | modicon m340 bmxp342010 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:schneider-electric:modicon_m340_bmxp342010_firmware |
| schneider-electric | modicon m340 bmxp342010 | cpe:2.3:h:schneider-electric:modicon_m340_bmxp342010 |
| schneider-electric | modicon m340 bmxp3420102 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:schneider-electric:modicon_m340_bmxp3420102_firmware |
| schneider-electric | modicon m340 bmxp3420102 | cpe:2.3:h:schneider-electric:modicon_m340_bmxp3420102 |
| schneider-electric | modicon m340 bmxp342030 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:schneider-electric:modicon_m340_bmxp342030_firmware |
| schneider-electric | modicon m340 bmxp342030 | cpe:2.3:h:schneider-electric:modicon_m340_bmxp342030 |
| schneider-electric | modicon m340 bmxp3420302 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:schneider-electric:modicon_m340_bmxp3420302_firmware |
| schneider-electric | modicon m340 bmxp3420302 | cpe:2.3:h:schneider-electric:modicon_m340_bmxp3420302 |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- schneider-electric modicon m340 bmxp341000 firmwareall versions
- schneider-electric modicon m340 bmxp342000 firmwareall versions
- schneider-electric modicon m340 bmxp342010 firmwareall versions
- schneider-electric modicon m340 bmxp3420102 firmwareall versions
- schneider-electric modicon m340 bmxp342030 firmwareall versions
- schneider-electric modicon m340 bmxp3420302 firmwareall versions
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (schneider). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
n/a Modicon M340 CPUs: BMXP34 (All Versions)
- Modicon M340 CPUs: BMXP34 (All Versions)affected
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Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd-primary
Root cause
Code that parses nested structures sets no depth or size limit. A small input can turn into a disproportionate processing load.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-400 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
function expand(node) { return node.children.map(expand);}Fixed
const MAX_DEPTH = 32;function expand(node, depth = 0) { if (depth > MAX_DEPTH) throw new Error("too deep"); return node.children.map((c) => expand(c, depth + 1));}Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Change log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.