Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager

Published: 2024-01-10 | Updated: 2024-10-11

Risk	High
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2023-41835 CVE-2023-50164
CWE-ID	CWE-400 CWE-22
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	Vulnerability #2 is being exploited in the wild.
Vulnerable software Subscribe	IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager Web applications / Other software
Vendor	IBM Corporation

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU80762

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-41835

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 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.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager: 7.3.0.0 - 7.3.0.10

CPE2.3

External links

http://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7106757

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.

2) Path traversal

EUVDB-ID: #VU83960

Risk: High

CVSSv3.1: 9.4 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-50164

CWE-ID: CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Exploit availability: Yes