SB2023062720 - Resource management error in IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager
Published: June 27, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023062720
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Partial DoS
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3733)
CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application within the AbstractBasicAuthHandler class in urllib. A remote attacker with control over the server can perform regular expression denial of service attack during authentication.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.