Inefficient regular expression complexity in word-wrap - CVE-2023-26115

 

Inefficient regular expression complexity in word-wrap - CVE-2023-26115

Published: August 21, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU79799
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-2023-26115
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. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


Affected software

word-wrap
Cloud Pak for Network Automation
IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions
Business Automation Insights
IBM Security QRadar Network Threat Analytics
Storage Defender – Data Protect
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
QRadar Suite
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management
IBM Edge Application Manager
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Migration Toolkit for Containers
OpenShift Data Foundation (formerly OpenShift Container Storage)
IBM App Connect Enterprise
Fedora
Network Observability plugin for the Openshift Console
Netcool Operations Insight
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
IBM Automation Decision Services
QRadar Pulse App
IBM Cloud Pak System
magicmirror
IBM Cognos Analytics

How to mitigate CVE-2023-26115

Install update from vendor's website.

word-wrap - update to 1.2.4
QRadar Suite - update to 1.10.18.0
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management - update to 2.3.8
OpenShift Data Foundation (formerly OpenShift Container Storage) - update to 4.13.3
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - update to 4.14.6
IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions - update to 9.0.1
Business Automation Insights - addressed in versions 24.0.0.0.5, 24.0.1.0.5, 25.0.0.0.2
IBM Security QRadar Network Threat Analytics - update to 1.4.0
Network Observability plugin for the Openshift Console - update to 1.4.0
Netcool Operations Insight - update to 1.6.10
Migration Toolkit for Containers - update to 1.8.0
Storage Defender – Data Protect - update to 2.0
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace - update to 2.0.91
QRadar Pulse App - update to 2.2.11
IBM Cloud Pak System - update to 2.3.3.7 iFix 01
magicmirror - update to 2.24.0-1.fc39
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.1.2
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container - addressed in versions 5.0.10, 9.1.0
IBM Cognos Analytics - addressed in versions 11.1.7 Fix Pack 8, 11.2.4 FP3, 12.0.2
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation - addressed in versions 21.0.3.24, 23.0.1.2
IBM Automation Decision Services - update to 23.0.1 IF003

External References

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