CVE-2022-22491 IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container denial of service

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Attackers can exhaust storage in IBM App Connect Enterprise containers on OpenShift, causing Pod restarts and service disruption.

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

What is CVE-2022-22491?

CVE-2022-22491 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container, published on 9 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, and 12.4 operands running in Red Hat OpenShift do not restrict writing to the local filesystem, which may result in exhausting the available storage in a Pod, resulting in that Pod being restarted.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-22491?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm App Connect Enterprise Certified Container.

How do I fix CVE-2022-22491?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-22491 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-2022-22491 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-22491 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

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