Progress OpenEdge up to 11.7.17/12.2.12/12.7.x Web Request memory corruption

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Progress OpenEdge up to 11.7.17/12.2.12/12.7.x. This affects an unknown function of the component Web Request Handler. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2023-40052. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Progress OpenEdge up to 11.7.17/12.2.12/12.7.x. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Web Request Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

This issue affects Progress Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge in versions 11.7 prior to 11.7.18, 12.2 prior to 12.2.13, and innovation releases prior to 12.8.0 .  An attacker who can produce a malformed web request may cause the crash of a PASOE agent potentially disrupting the thread activities of many web application clients. Multiple of these DoS attacks could lead to the flooding of invalid requests as compared to the server’s remaining ability to process valid requests.

The weakness was presented 01/18/2024. The advisory is shared for download at community.progress.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-40052 since 08/08/2023. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 11.7.18, 12.2.13 or 12.8.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Progress

Name

• OpenEdge

Version

• 11.7.0
• 11.7.1
• 11.7.2
• 11.7.3
• 11.7.4
• 11.7.5
• 11.7.6
• 11.7.7
• 11.7.8
• 11.7.9
• 11.7.10
• 11.7.11
• 11.7.12
• 11.7.13
• 11.7.14
• 11.7.15
• 11.7.16
• 11.7.17
• 12.0
• 12.1
• 12.2
• 12.2.0
• 12.2.1
• 12.2.2
• 12.2.3
• 12.2.4
• 12.2.5
• 12.2.6
• 12.2.7
• 12.2.8
• 12.2.9
• 12.2.10
• 12.2.11
• 12.2.12
• 12.3
• 12.4
• 12.5
• 12.6
• 12.7

License

• commercial

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