SB2025010943 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson CP4D Data Stores



SB2025010943 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson CP4D Data Stores

Published: January 9, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2025010943
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
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 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-39908)

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted characters, such as "<", "\0" and "%>" to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-45288)

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient limitations placed on the amount of CONTINUATION frames that can be sent within a single HTTP/2 stream. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP/2 requests to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.