Resource exhaustion in Fault Tolerance - CVE-2025-2240

 

Resource exhaustion in Fault Tolerance - CVE-2025-2240

Published: April 3, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU106927
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-2240
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when calling metrics URI. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Fault Tolerance
Red Hat build of Quarkus
DataPower Operations Dashboard
watsonx Orchestrate with watsonx Assistant Cartridge - UAB Component
IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions
Telco Service Activator
Event Streams
Red Hat Camel for Spring Boot

How to mitigate CVE-2025-2240

Install updates from vendor's website.

Fault Tolerance - addressed in versions 6.4.2, 6.9.0
DataPower Operations Dashboard - update to 1.0.23.2
watsonx Orchestrate with watsonx Assistant Cartridge - UAB Component - update to 5.2.1
IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions - update to 9.2.1
Event Streams - update to 12.2.1
Red Hat build of Quarkus - update to 3.15.4
Red Hat Camel for Spring Boot - addressed in versions 4.8, 4.8.5
Telco Service Activator - update to 10.3.0

External References

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