Security Bulletin: IBM Event Streams is vulnerable to a denial of service attack (CVE-2024-28176).

Summary

IBM Event Streams is vulnerable to a denial of service due to the jose module component, caused by a flaw during JWE Decryption operations. Jose module is a javaScript implementation of the JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) for current web browsers and node. js-based servers.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-28176
**DESCRIPTION:**Node.js jose module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw during JWE Decryption operations. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume unreasonable amount of CPU time or memory, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285538 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading

Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 11.3.2 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None