IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture up to 7.5.51 Hardware Security out-of-bounds write

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture and 4769 Developers Toolkit up to 7.5.51. It has been rated as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Hardware Security Module. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds write. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-49823. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture and 4769 Developers Toolkit up to 7.5.51. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Hardware Security Module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds write vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-787. The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture 7.0.0 through 7.5.51 could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service in the Hardware Security Module (HSM) using a specially crafted sequence of valid requests.

It is possible to read the advisory at ibm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-49823 since 10/20/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/25/2025).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• IBM

Name

• 4769 Developers Toolkit
• Common Cryptographic Architecture

Version

• 7.5.0
• 7.5.1
• 7.5.2
• 7.5.3
• 7.5.4
• 7.5.5
• 7.5.6
• 7.5.7
• 7.5.8
• 7.5.9
• 7.5.10
• 7.5.11
• 7.5.12
• 7.5.13
• 7.5.14
• 7.5.15
• 7.5.16
• 7.5.17
• 7.5.18
• 7.5.19
• 7.5.20
• 7.5.21
• 7.5.22
• 7.5.23
• 7.5.24
• 7.5.25
• 7.5.26
• 7.5.27
• 7.5.28
• 7.5.29
• 7.5.30
• 7.5.31
• 7.5.32
• 7.5.33
• 7.5.34
• 7.5.35
• 7.5.36
• 7.5.37
• 7.5.38
• 7.5.39
• 7.5.40
• 7.5.41
• 7.5.42
• 7.5.43
• 7.5.44
• 7.5.45
• 7.5.46
• 7.5.47
• 7.5.48
• 7.5.49
• 7.5.50
• 7.5.51

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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