IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing 7.0.2/7.0.3 Remote DoS via Regex
CVE-2024-41766 Published on January 4, 2025

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing denial of service
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing 7.0.2 and 7.0.3 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service using a complex regular expression.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2024-41766 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 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-2024-41766 has been classified to as a ReDoS vulnerability or weakness.


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Affected Versions

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization Publishing Version 7.0.2, 7.0.3 is affected by CVE-2024-41766

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.12%
Percentile
30.67%

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.