Denial of service in IBM Operations Dashboard

1) Incorrect Regular Expression

EUVDB-ID: #VU61227

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24921

CWE-ID: CWE-185 - Incorrect Regular Expression

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in regexp.Compile in Go. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Operations Dashboard: 2020.4.1 - 2021.4.1-3

External links

http://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-operations-dashboard-is-vulnerable-to-go-cve-2022-24921/
http://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6570629

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.