CVE-2015-1976 Denial of service in Directory Server

What is CVE-2015-1976?

CVE-2015-1976 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM Corporation Directory Server, published on 8 Feb 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Security Directory Server could allow an authenticated user to execute commands into the web administration tool that would cause the tool to crash.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1976?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Ibm Security Directory Server, Ibm Tivoli Directory Server.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1976?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-1976 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-2015-1976 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1976 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Corporation Directory Server

• CVE-2022-33164 IBM Security Directory Server path traversal High 8.7
• CVE-2019-4520 Security feature bypass in Security Directory Server High 7.5
• CVE-2015-1977 Path traversal in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2019-4538 Open redirect in Security Directory Server High 7.4
• CVE-2019-4539 XML external entity in Security Directory Server High 7.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-88qw-c22c-3qpv.