SB2024051018 - Resource exhaustion in IBM QRadar SIEM RabbitMQ protocol 



SB2024051018 - Resource exhaustion in IBM QRadar SIEM RabbitMQ protocol

Published: May 10, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024051018
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-46120)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to RabbitMQ Java client library allows Java and JVM-based applications to connect to and interact with RabbitMQ nodes. A remote attacker can send a very large Message causing a memory overflow and triggering an OOM Error to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.