CVE-2022-34428 Denial of service in Dell Hybrid Client (DHC)

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

An attacker with admin access can cause temporary denial of service in Dell Hybrid Client via a regex vulnerability.

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-2022-34428?

CVE-2022-34428 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Dell Hybrid Client (DHC), published on 30 Sep 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Dell Hybrid Client prior to version 1.8 contains a Regular Expression Denial of Service Vulnerability in the UI. An adversary with WMS group admin access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to temporary denial-of-service.

Weakness: CWE-1333

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-34428?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Dell Hybrid Client.

How do I fix CVE-2022-34428?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-34428 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-2022-34428 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-34428 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-2c8v-3247-5w53.

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