CVE-2021-38951 Denial of service in WebSphere Application Server

What is CVE-2021-38951?

CVE-2021-38951 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Websphere Application Server, published on 9 Dec 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by sending a specially-crafted request. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the server to consume all available CPU resources. IBM X-Force ID: 211405.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-38951?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Websphere Application Server.

How do I fix CVE-2021-38951?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-38951 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-2021-38951 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-38951 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Websphere Application Server

• CVE-2015-1920 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2013-0462 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-1377 Security feature bypass in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3186 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-1899 Information disclosure in n/a Critical 10.0

All Ibm Websphere Application Server vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g3vr-f28g-hxqc.