SB2024021634 - Excessive Iteration in IBM Event Processing
Published: February 16, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB2024021634
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Excessive Iteration (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4043)
CWE-ID: CWE-834 - Excessive Iteration
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to built-in support for parsing numbers with large scale in Java has a number of edge cases where the input text of a number can lead to much larger processing time than one would expect. A remote attacker can trigger excessive iteration and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.