SB2022071202 - Denial of service in IBM Event Streams
Published: July 12, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022071202
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24921)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in regexp.Compile in Go. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-vulnerabilities-in-the-golang-language-affect-ibm-event-streams-cve-2022-24921/"
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