CVE-2018-1652 Denial of service in DataPower Gateways

Medium 6.2 Published Updated

A local user can cause a denial of service in IBM DataPower Gateway and MQ Appliance through unknown vectors.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2018-1652?

CVE-2018-1652 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Datapower Gateway, published on 11 Dec 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM DataPower Gateway 7.1.0.0 through 7.1.0.19, 7.2.0.0 through 7.2.0.16, 7.5.0.0 through 7.5.0.10, 7.5.1.0 through 7.5.1.9, 7.5.2.0 through 7.5.2.9, and 7.6.0.0 through 7.6.0.2 and IBM MQ Appliance 8.0.0.0 through 8.0.0.8 and 9.0.1 through 9.0.5 could allow a local user to cause a denial of service through unknown vectors. IBM X-Force ID: 144724.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1652?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Ibm Datapower Gateway, Ibm Mq Appliance.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1652?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-1652 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-2018-1652 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1652 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Ibm Datapower Gateway vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-3rxq-7p39-5hg9.

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