Inefficient regular expression complexity in IBM Business Automation Workflow



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2024-24762
CWE-ID CWE-1333
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
IBM Business Automation Workflow
Server applications / Other server solutions

Vendor IBM Corporation

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Inefficient regular expression complexity

EUVDB-ID: #VU86533

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [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]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-24762

CWE-ID: CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Exploit availability: No

Description

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.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

IBM Business Automation Workflow: before 23.0.2 IF003

CPE2.3 External links

http://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7145680


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.



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