CVE-2024-54170

Feb. 27, 2025, 3:15 p.m.

5.5
Medium

Description

IBM EntireX 11.1 could allow a local user to cause a denial of service due to use of a regular expression with an inefficient complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
IBM EntireX
  • ['11.1']

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-1333
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7184194

Tags

psirt@us.ibm.com
CWE-1333
2025-02-27
CVE-2024-54170

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: HIGH

    • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Timeline

Published: Feb. 27, 2025, 3:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Feb. 27, 2025, 3:15 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

psirt@us.ibm.com

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