Resource exhaustion in mime - CVE-2017-16138
Published: June 2, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU110013
CSH Severity: High
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-2017-16138
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 mime lookup is performed on untrusted user input. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
mime
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog in Cloud Pak for Data
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog in Cloud Pak for Data
How to mitigate CVE-2017-16138
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..
mime - update to 2.0.3
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog in Cloud Pak for Data - addressed in versions 4.8.8, 4.8.9, 5.1.3
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog in Cloud Pak for Data - addressed in versions 4.8.8, 4.8.9, 5.1.3