Denial of service in IBM Cloud Application Performance Managment and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions

1) Buffer overflow

EUVDB-ID: #VU61671

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-25032

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

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 when compressing data. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application, trigger memory corruption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions: 7.4.0.1 - 7.4.0.2

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM): 8.1.4

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:ibm_corporation:tivoli_composite_application_manager_for_transactions:7.4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:ibm_corporation:tivoli_composite_application_manager_for_transactions:7.4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:ibm_corporation:apm:8.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-a-vulneraqbility-in-zlib-affects-ibm-cloud-application-performance-managment-r-esponse-time-monitoring-agent-cve-2018-25032/
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6619075

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.