CVE-2022-43855 IBM SPSS Statistics denial of service

What is CVE-2022-43855?

CVE-2022-43855 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM SPSS Statistics, published on 8 Mar 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM SPSS Statistics 26.0, 27.0.1, and 28.0 IO Module could allow a local user to create multiple files that could exhaust the file handles capacity and cause a denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-43855?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Spss Statistics.

How do I fix CVE-2022-43855?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-43855 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-2022-43855 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-43855 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM SPSS Statistics

• CVE-2015-7489 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2015-0140 Code injection in n/a Medium 6.8
• CVE-2015-8530 Memory corruption in n/a Medium 6.5
• CVE-2021-38959 Path traversal in SPSS Statistics Medium 6.2
• CVE-2024-31896 IBM SPSS Statistics information disclosure Medium 5.9

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-ww23-hvpx-hvvc.