Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in XNIO - CVE-2022-0084
Published: May 13, 2022 / Updated: August 17, 2023
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to notifyReadClosed method from main/java/org/xnio/StreamConnection.java logs data into debug log instead of stderr. As a result, an attacker can trigger the application to log enormous amount of data and consume all available space.
Affected software
B2B Advanced Communications
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog in Cloud Pak for Data
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Red Hat Single Sign-On
JBoss Data Grid
rh-sso7-keycloak (Red Hat package)
rh-sso7 (Red Hat package)
xnio-help
xnio
rh-sso7-javapackages-tools (Red Hat package)
openEuler
Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Console
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
How to mitigate CVE-2022-0084
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog in Cloud Pak for Data - addressed in versions 4.8.9, 5.1.3
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform - update to 7.4.5
Red Hat Single Sign-On - addressed in versions 7.5.3, 7.6.1
JBoss Data Grid - update to 8.3.1
rh-sso7-keycloak (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 15.0.8-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso, 15.0.8-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso, 18.0.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso, 18.0.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso
rh-sso7 (Red Hat package) - update to 1-5.el9sso
xnio-help - update to 3.4.0-12
xnio - update to 3.4.0-12
rh-sso7-javapackages-tools (Red Hat package) - update to 6.0.0-7.el9sso
IBM InfoSphere Information Server - update to 11.7.1.4 Service pack 1
External References
Related Security Bulletins
- Denial of service in XNIO
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Data Grid
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5
- Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5 on RHEL 8 update for keycloak
- Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5 on RHEL 7 update for keycloak
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 on RHEL 9
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 on RHEL 8
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 on RHEL 7
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Console
- Allocation of resources without limits or throttling in IBM InfoSphere Information Server
- Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog
- openEuler update for xnio
- Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM B2B Advanced Communications