SB2024040234 - Inefficient regular expression complexity in IBM Business Automation Workflow



SB2024040234 - Inefficient regular expression complexity in IBM Business Automation Workflow

Published: April 2, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024040234
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 security vulnerability.


1) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-24762)

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing value of the "Content-Type" HTTP header with a regular expressions. 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.