CVE-2024-51461 IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent denial of service

What is CVE-2024-51461?

CVE-2024-51461 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent, published on 11 Apr 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent 10.0 through 10.1.13 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by interrupting an HTTP request that could consume memory resources.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-51461?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Qradar Wincollect.

How do I fix CVE-2024-51461?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-51461 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-2024-51461 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-51461 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent

• CVE-2023-26278 IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent privilege escalation High 8.2
• CVE-2023-26277 IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent privilege escalation High 7.8
• CVE-2023-38736 IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent privilege escalation High 7.5
• CVE-2021-39006 Information disclosure in QRadar WinCollect Agent Medium 5.3
• CVE-2022-43880 IBM QRadar WinCollect Agent Medium 4.4

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8pph-7gjg-6jjp.