Progress PASOE Agent DoS via malformed request in PAS <=11.7.18/12.2.13
CVE-2023-40052 Published on January 18, 2024

Progress Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge Denial of Service
This issue affects Progress Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge in versions 11.7 prior to 11.7.18, 12.2 prior to 12.2.13, and innovation releases prior to 12.8.0 .  An attacker who can produce a malformed web request may cause the crash of a PASOE agent potentially disrupting the thread activities of many web application clients. Multiple of these DoS attacks could lead to the flooding of invalid requests as compared to the servers remaining ability to process valid requests.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2023-40052 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. 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 high impact on availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
NONE
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

What is a Buffer Overflow Vulnerability?

The software performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.

CVE-2023-40052 has been classified to as a Buffer Overflow vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2023-40052

You can be notified by email with stack.watch whenever vulnerabilities like CVE-2023-40052 are published in these products:

 
 

Affected Versions

Progress Software Corporation OpenEdge: progress openedge: progress openedge_innovation:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.03%
Percentile
8.46%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.