Denial of service in IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps Infrastructure Automation Managed Services

1) Input validation error

EUVDB-ID: #VU64874

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-2022-24434

CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can send a modified form to server, and crash the nodejs service. An attacker can sent the payload again and again so that the service continuously crashes.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps : before 3.4.2

External links

http://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-a-security-vulnerability-in-node-js-dicer-affects-ibm-cloud-pak-for-watson-aiops-infrastructure-automation-managed-services/
http://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6621267

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.