CVE-2007-5281 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Hitachi Cosminexus products via malicious SSL/TLS handshake requests.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2007-5281?

CVE-2007-5281 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 9 Oct 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) in the Hitachi Cosminexus Developer's Kit for Java in various Hitachi Cosminexus 7.5 products before 07-50-01, when using JSSE for SSL/TLS support, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via certain SSL/TLS handshake requests. NOTE: this may be the same as CVE-2007-3698.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-5281?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Hitachi Ucosminexus Application Server Enterprise, Hitachi Ucosminexus Application Server Standard, Hitachi Ucosminexus Client, Hitachi Ucosminexus Developer Professional, Hitachi Ucosminexus Developer Standard, Hitachi Ucosminexus Operator and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2007-5281?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-5281 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2007-5281 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-5281 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as CVE-2007-5286, GHSA-7f3h-668h-399r.

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