Inefficient regular expression complexity in cookiejar - CVE-2022-25901

 

Inefficient regular expression complexity in cookiejar - CVE-2022-25901

Published: May 31, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU76691
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-2022-25901
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
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 insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions within the Cookie.parse function. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


Affected software

cookiejar
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
Business Automation Insights
Data Virtualization (DV) on Cloud Pak for Data (CPD)
Dell Data Protection Central
QRadar Pulse App
IBM QRadar Use Case Manager
Netcool Operations Insight
IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor
QRadar User Behavior Analytics
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S)
Cloud Pak for Data

How to mitigate CVE-2022-25901

Install update from vendor's website.

cookiejar - update to 2.1.4
QRadar Pulse App - update to 2.2.10
Business Automation Insights - addressed in versions 24.0.0.0.5, 24.0.1.0.5, 25.0.0.0.2
Netcool Operations Insight - update to 1.6.10
Data Virtualization (DV) on Cloud Pak for Data (CPD) - update to 1.8.0
Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S) - update to 1.10.10.0
IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor - update to 3.4.2
IBM QRadar Use Case Manager - update to 3.8.0
QRadar User Behavior Analytics - update to 4.1.11
Cloud Pak for Data - update to 5.0.0
Dell Data Protection Central - update to 19.10.0-4
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation - addressed in versions 21.0.3.19, 22.0.2.3

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