# CVE-2024-52362: IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container denial of service

> An authenticated user can cause a denial of service in IBM App Connect Enterprise flows due to improper input validation.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 1 Sep 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-97hp-c3p8-8ggc

## What is CVE-2024-52362?

CVE-2024-52362 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container, published on 12 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container 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, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, and 12.8 could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service in the App Connect flow due to improper validation of server-side input.

Weakness: CWE-1286 (Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-52362?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Ibm App Connect Enterprise Certified Containers Operands, Ibm App Connect Operator.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-52362?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-52362 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-52362 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52362 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container

- [CVE-2025-13490](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-13490/): Information disclosure in App Connect EnterpriseCertified Containers Operands (medium 5.9)
- [CVE-2025-36133](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-36133/): IBM App Connect Enterprise information disclosure (medium 5.9)
- [CVE-2025-1993](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1993/): IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container information disclosure (medium 5.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-52362 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-52362 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in IBM App Connect Enterprise Certified Container, published on 12 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52362 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-2024-52362/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-52362/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-52362
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52362
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-52362

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-52362/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.