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

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

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 9 Jan 2025

## 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 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-22491?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## Is CVE-2022-22491 being exploited?

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

## Other vulnerabilities in IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container

- [CVE-2024-51465](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-51465/): IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container command execution (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2022-43916](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-43916/): IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container improper communications restriction (medium 6.8)
- [CVE-2022-43915](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-43915/): IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container (medium 6.8)
- [CVE-2022-22404](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22404/): Denial of service in App Connect Enterprise Certified Container (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2022-43874](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-43874/): IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-22491 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22491/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22491/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-22491
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22491
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-22491

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22491/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.