CVE-2022-29617 Denial of service in CLA Assistant

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

An authenticated user can crash the SAP CLA Assistant instance via improper error handling, impacting application availability.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2022-29617?

CVE-2022-29617 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in SAP SE CLA Assistant, published on 6 Jun 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Due to improper error handling an authenticated user can crash CLA assistant instance. This could impact the availability of the application.

Weakness: CWE-755

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-29617?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Sap Contributor License Agreement Assistant.

How do I fix CVE-2022-29617?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-29617 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-2022-29617 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-29617 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-jjjv-grgr-v8h3.

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