SB2025070721 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Event Processing
Published: July 7, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 vulnerabilities.
1) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-27789)
CWE-ID: CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-25193)
CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application attempts to load a file that does not exist. A local user can create a large file on the system and crash the application.
Note, the vulnerability affects Windows installations only.
3) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-47535)
CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an unsafe reading of an environment file on Windows. A local user can create an overly large file and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.