Resource exhaustion in Apex One - CVE-2022-24678
Published: February 15, 2022 / Updated: February 16, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU60624
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-2022-24678
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. A remote attacker can force the application to consume all disk space in the temporary log location and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Apex One
Worry-Free Business Security
Worry-Free Business Security
How to mitigate CVE-2022-24678
Install updates from vendor's website.
Apex One - update to CP B10071
Worry-Free Business Security - update to 10.0 SP1 Patch 2390
Worry-Free Business Security - update to 10.0 SP1 Patch 2390