vulnerability
IBM WebSphere Application Server: CVE-2024-7254: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to a denial of service due to Google Protocol Buffers (CVE-2024-7254)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Sep 19, 2024 | Nov 11, 2024 | Jun 23, 2026 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 19, 2024
Added
Nov 11, 2024
Modified
Jun 23, 2026
Description
Any project that parses untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of nested groups or series of SGROUP tags can corrupted by exceeding the stack limit i.e. StackOverflow. Parsing nested groups as unknown fields with DiscardUnknownFieldsParser or Java Protobuf Lite parser, or against Protobuf map fields, creates unbounded recursions that can be abused by an attacker
Solution
ibm-was-upgrade-latest
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