SB2023040425 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Event Streams

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SB2023040425 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Event Streams

Published: April 4, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023040425
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25927)

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation passed via the trim() function. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


2) Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25881)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to regular expression denial of service that occurs when the server reads the cache policy from the request using this library. A remote unauthenticated attacker can send malicious request header values to the server and perform a denial of service attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References