Denial of service in IBM TRIRIGA Application Platform

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU56019

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-30468

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

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 in the JsonMapObjectReaderWriter. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion by submitting a malformed JSON to a web service and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

IBM TRIRIGA Application Platform: before 3.6.1.3, 3.7.0.1, 3.8.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.1.1, 3.6.1.3, 3.6.1.3, 3.6.1.3, 3.6.1.3

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:ibm_corporation:ibm_tririga_application_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletinibm-tririga-application-platform-discloses-cve-2021-30468/
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6616299

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.