Memory leak in Vert.x - CVE-2024-1300

 

Memory leak in Vert.x - CVE-2024-1300

Published: April 5, 2024 / Updated: August 28, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU88188
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-2024-1300
CWE-ID: CWE-401
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 memory leak in TCP servers configured with TLS and SNI support. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted certificate to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Vert.x
Migration Toolkit for Runtimes
Cryostat
Red Hat build of Quarkus
Red Hat Integration - Service Registry
Red Hat Integration Camel Extensions for Quarkus
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
IBM Application Suite - IBM Asset Data Dictionary Component
watsonx Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
IBM Event Endpoint Management
Business Automation Insights
AMQ Streams
Event Streams

How to mitigate CVE-2024-1300

Install update from vendor's website.

Vert.x - addressed in versions 4.4.8, 4.5.3
Migration Toolkit for Runtimes - update to 1.2.5
Red Hat build of Quarkus - update to 3.2.11
IBM Application Suite - IBM Asset Data Dictionary Component - update to 1.1.7
AMQ Streams - addressed in versions 2.5.2, 2.7.0
Red Hat Integration - Service Registry - update to 2.5.11
Red Hat Integration Camel Extensions for Quarkus - update to 3.2.11
watsonx Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.8.8
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications - update to 6.2.3
IBM Event Endpoint Management - update to 11.2.1
Event Streams - update to 11.4.0
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation - addressed in versions 21.0.3-IF035, 21.0.3.33, 23.0.2.5, 24.0.0-IF001
Business Automation Insights - update to 23.0.2.0.5

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