SB2024030721 - Inefficient regular expression complexity in IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact
Published: March 7, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB2024030721
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 security vulnerability.
1) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25844)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to angular provides a custom locale rule that makes it possible to assign the parameter in posPre: ' '.repeat() of NUMBER_FORMATS.PATTERNS[1].posPre with a very high value. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.