Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2017-16086 |
CWE-ID | CWE-400 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | Public exploit code for vulnerability #1 is available. |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor Server applications / Other server solutions |
Vendor | IBM Corporation |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU27690
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:F/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-16086
CWE-ID:
CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
Exploit availability: Yes
DescriptionThe 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 parsing regular expressions.A remote attacker can pass a very long UserAgent header to the application and trigger a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS).
Server-side applications that use "ua-parser-js" for parsing the browser user-agent string will be vulnerable if they call the "getOS" or "getResult" functions.
MitigationInstall update from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsIBM Cloud Transformation Advisor: 2.0
CPE2.3 External linkshttp://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6438709
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability. However, a fully functional exploit for this vulnerability is available.