Resource exhaustion in node-fetch - CVE-2022-2596

 

Resource exhaustion in node-fetch - CVE-2022-2596

Published: October 31, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU68848
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2596
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 trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

node-fetch
DB2 Data Management Console
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
QRadar Assistant
Spectrum Discover

How to mitigate CVE-2022-2596

Install updates from vendor's website.

node-fetch - update to 3.2.10
DB2 Data Management Console - update to 3.1.13.2
Spectrum Discover - addressed in versions 2.0.4.8, 2.1.1
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 3.5
QRadar Assistant - update to 3.6.0

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