Resource exhaustion in IBM DB2 LUW - CVE-2023-30987

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Resource exhaustion in IBM DB2 LUW - CVE-2023-30987

Published: October 31, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU82578
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-2023-30987
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

IBM DB2 LUW
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

How to mitigate CVE-2023-30987

Install updates from vendor's website.

Db2 Big SQL - update to 7.6
dashDB Local - update to 11.5.9.0
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM) - update to 8.1.4.0.15
Storage Protect Server - update to 8.1.21
IBM DB2 - addressed in versions 10.5 FP11, 11.1.4.7, 11.5.0.0, 11.5.7, 11.5.8

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