Resource exhaustion in IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU54077

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-2021-33503

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in urllib3 when processing URL with multiple "@" characters in the authority component. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data : before 4.5.1

External links

http://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6610285

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.