SB2022100308 - Denial of service in IBM Sterling Control Center
Published: October 3, 2022 Updated: November 28, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022100308
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22971)
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 within the Spring application with a STOMP over WebSocket endpoint. A remote user can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-ibm-sterling-control-center-is-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-by-authenticated-user-due-to-spring-framework-cve-2022-22971/"
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-ibm-sterling-control-center-is-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-by-authenticated-user-due-to-spring-framework-cve-2022-22971/</a><br>
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6619837<br><br></p>