CVE-2018-1997 (GCVE-0-2018-1997)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-04-08 14:50 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:52
VLAI
Summary
IBM Business Automation Workflow and Business Process Manager 18.0.0.0, 18.0.0.1, and 18.0.0.2 are vulnerable to a denial of service attack. An authenticated attacker might send a specially crafted request that exhausts server-side memory. IBM X-Force ID: 154774.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/A:L/PR:L/I:N/AC:L/C:N/S:U/UI:N/AV:N/RL:O/E:U/RC:C
CWE
  • Denial of Service
Assigner
ibm
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Business Automation Workflow Affected: 18.0.0.0
Affected: 18.0.0.1
Affected: 18.0.0.2
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Date Public
2019-04-04 00:00
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