Resource exhaustion in IBM DB2 - CVE-2023-38719

 

Resource exhaustion in IBM DB2 - CVE-2023-38719

Published: October 9, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU81712
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-2023-38719
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 during database deactivation on DPF.


Affected software

IBM DB2
IBM License Metric Tool
IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager
IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights
IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM)
IBM Intelligent Operations Center
WebSphere Remote Server
IBM Security Verify Governance
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM)
Db2 Big SQL
dashDB Local
Storage Protect Server
IBM Cloud Pak System

How to mitigate CVE-2023-38719

Install updates from vendor's website.

IBM DB2 - update to 11.5.8
Db2 Big SQL - update to 7.6
dashDB Local - update to 11.5.9.0
IBM Cloud Pak System - addressed in versions 2.3.4.1, 2.3.5.0
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM) - update to 8.1.4.0.15
Storage Protect Server - update to 8.1.21

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