SB2023050514 - Resource exhaustion in IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

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SB2023050514 - Resource exhaustion in IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Published: May 5, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023050514
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-26464)

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. When using the Chainsaw or SocketAppender components with Log4j 1.x on JRE less than 1.7, an attacker that manages to cause a logging entry involving a specially-crafted (i.e., deeply nested) hashmap or hashtable (depending on which logging component is in use) to be processed can exhaust the available memory in the virtual machine and achieve denial of service when the object is deserialized.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References