Dell Hybrid Client <1.8 UI regex DoS (WMS admin exploitable)
CVE-2022-34428 Published on September 30, 2022
Dell Hybrid Client prior to version 1.8 contains a Regular Expression Denial of Service Vulnerability in the UI. An adversary with WMS group admin access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to temporary denial-of-service.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-34428 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a small impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a ReDoS Vulnerability?
The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles. Some regular expression engines have a feature called "backtracking". If the token cannot match, the engine "backtracks" to a position that may result in a different token that can match. Backtracking becomes a weakness if all of these conditions are met:
CVE-2022-34428 has been classified to as a ReDoS vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2022-34428
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Affected Versions
Dell Hybrid Client (DHC):- Version unspecified and below 1.8 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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