SB2024011029 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager



SB2024011029 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager

Published: January 10, 2024 Updated: March 18, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2024011029
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-41835)

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly handles multipart requests. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted multipart request with fields that exceed the maxStringLength  limit and force the application to use disk excessively even if the request was denied.


2) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-50164)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences in path names. A remote attacker can upload a malicious file to the server and execute it.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.