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
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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.
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.
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
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Affected Versions
Progress Software Corporation OpenEdge:- Version 11.7.0 and below 11.7.18 is affected.
- Version 12.2.0 and below 12.2.13 is affected.
- Version Innovation Releases and below 12.8.0 is affected.
- Version 11.7 and below 11.7.18 is affected.
- Version 12.2.0 and below 12.2.13 is affected.
- Before 12.8.0 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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