Resource exhaustion in Build Failure Analyzer - CVE-2019-16555
Published: December 18, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU23672
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16555
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 a user-supplied regular expression is processed in a way that is not interruptible. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Build Failure Analyzer
How to mitigate CVE-2019-16555
Install updates from vendor's website.
Build Failure Analyzer - update to 1.24.2