Resource exhaustion in IBM Spectrum Control

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU73244

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-2023-26464

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 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.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

IBM Spectrum Control: before 5.4.10.1

External links

http://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7004955

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.