VAR-201606-0252
Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-04-12 23:08OSIsoft PI AF Server before 2016 2.8.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (service outage) via a message. The OSIsoft PI System is a suite of data acquisition, analysis, and visualization software. The PI AF Server is the core product of the PI System. Attackers can exploit this issue to cause a denial-of-service condition, denying service to legitimate users
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.