Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in iText - CVE-2022-24196

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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in iText - CVE-2022-24196

Published: April 11, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU62059
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24196
CWE-ID: CWE-770
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 allocation of resources without limits or throttling in the component readStreamBytesRaw. A remote attacker can trick a victim to open a specially crafted PDF file and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

iText
IBM Process Mining

How to mitigate CVE-2022-24196

Install updates from vendor's website.

iText - update to 7.2.2
IBM Process Mining - update to 1.14.2

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