Security Bulletin: IBM Event Processing is vulnerable to a denial of service attack (CVE-2023-51074).

Summary

IBM Event Processing is vulnerable to a denial of service due to json-path component , caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in the Criteria.parse method. It is a query language for JSON, similar to XPath for XML. It allows you to select and extract data from a JSON document.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-51074
**DESCRIPTION:**json-path is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in the Criteria.parse method. By sending a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an uncontrolled recursion, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/276174 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading

Upgrade to IBM Event Processing 1.1.3 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None