SB2025010603 - IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Publishing update for Apache Commons IO 



SB2025010603 - IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Publishing update for Apache Commons IO

Published: January 6, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2025010603
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-2024-47554)

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 when handling untrusted input passed to the org.apache.commons.io.input.XmlStreamReader class. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.