SB2025031728 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Observability with Instana 

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SB2025031728 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Observability with Instana

Published: March 17, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2025031728
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-25193)

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application attempts to load a file that does not exist. A local user can create a large file on the system and crash the application.

Note, the vulnerability affects Windows installations only.


2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-24970)

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in SslHandler when using native SSLEngine. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted packet to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References