CVE-2017-1227 Denial of service in BigFix Platform

What is CVE-2017-1227?

CVE-2017-1227 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM BigFix Platform, published on 31 Jul 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager could allow a unauthorized user to consume all resources and crash the system. IBM X-Force ID: 123906.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-1227?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Bigfix Platform.

How do I fix CVE-2017-1227?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-1227 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-2017-1227 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-1227 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM BigFix Platform

• CVE-2016-6082 Use after free in BigFix Platform Critical 10.0
• CVE-2018-1475 Security feature bypass in BigFix Platform Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-1221 Weak cryptography in BigFix Platform Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-4013 File upload in BigFix Platform Critical 9.0
• CVE-2018-1479 Cross-site request forgery in BigFix Platform High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-m244-cxx3-4ph9.