Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in IBM DB2 LUW - CVE-2024-41762

 

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in IBM DB2 LUW - CVE-2024-41762

Published: February 21, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU104124
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-41762
CWE-ID: CWE-770
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to application allocate resources without limits or throttling. A remote user can cause a server crash under certain conditions by sending a specially crafted query.


Affected software

IBM DB2 LUW
IBM Cloud Pak System
IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM)
WebSphere Remote Server
IBM Security Verify Governance
IBM Security Verify Governance - Containerized Identity Manager
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM)
Datacap
Db2 Big SQL

How to mitigate CVE-2024-41762

Install updates from vendor's website.

IBM DB2 LUW - addressed in versions 10.5 FP11, 11.1.4 FP7, 11.5.9
IBM Cloud Pak System - update to 2.3.6.0
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM) - update to 8.1.4.0.4
Db2 Big SQL - update to 8.2

External References

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