CVE-2021-29714 Denial of service in Content Navigator

What is CVE-2021-29714?

CVE-2021-29714 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM Content Navigator, published on 9 Aug 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Content Navigator 3.0.CD could allow a malicious user to cause a denial of service due to improper input validation. IBM X-Force ID: 200968.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-29714?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Content Navigator.

How do I fix CVE-2021-29714?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-29714 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-2021-29714 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-29714 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Content Navigator

• CVE-2018-1364 XML external entity in Content Navigator High 8.2
• CVE-2018-1366 Other in Content Navigator High 7.8
• CVE-2022-43581 IBM Content Navigator code execution High 7.5
• CVE-2019-4092 Open redirect in Content Navigator Medium 6.8
• CVE-2020-4757 Cross-site scripting in Content Navigator Medium 6.4

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r9wv-hvx2-jx2c.