Summer Pearl Group Vacation Rental Management Platform prior to 1.0.2 is susceptible to a Slowloris-style Denial-of-Service (DoS) condition in the HTTP connection handling layer, where an attacker that opens and maintains many slow or partially-completed HTTP connections can exhaust the server’s connection pool and worker capacity, preventing legitimate users and APIs from accessing the service.
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
Mitigation of resource exhaustion attacks requires that the target system either:
The first of these solutions is an issue in itself though, since it may allow attackers to prevent the use of the system by a particular valid user. If the attacker impersonates the valid user, they may be able to prevent the user from accessing the server in question.
The second solution is simply difficult to effectively institute – and even when properly done, it does not provide a full solution. It simply makes the attack require more resources on the part of the attacker.