SB2024040936 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM App Connect Enterprise 



SB2024040936 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM App Connect Enterprise

Published: April 9, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024040936
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-28176)

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 JSON Web Encryption (JWE) decryption interfaces. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


2) Prototype pollution (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-27307)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code.

The vulnerability exists due to malicious expression can use the transform operator to override properties on the `Object` constructor and prototype.. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform prototype pollution, which can result in denial of service, remote code execution or other unexpected behavior in applications that evaluate user-provided JSONata expressions.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.