Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM DB2 Data Management Console

Published: 2025-07-07

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2023-39325 CVE-2022-21698
CWE-ID	CWE-400 CWE-20
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software	DB2 Data Management Console Other software / Other software solutions
Vendor	IBM Corporation

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU82064

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-2023-39325

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to excessive consumption of internal resources when handling HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker can bypass the http2.Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting by creating new connections while the current connections are still being processed, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

DB2 Data Management Console: 3.1.12 - 3.1.13

CPE2.3

External links

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7238833

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.

2) Input validation error

EUVDB-ID: #VU61599