IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS and DOORS Web Access resource consumption

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS and DOORS Web Access up to 9.6.1.13/9.7.2.11. It has been declared as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation results in resource consumption. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2024-25039. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS and DOORS Web Access up to 9.6.1.13/9.7.2.11. Affected is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS and DOORS Web Access 9.7.2.1 through 9.7.2.11, and 9.6.1.1 through 9.6.1.13 do not limit the length of a connection which could allow for a Slowloris HTTP denial of service attack to take place. This can cause the web server to become unresponsive.

The advisory is available at ibm.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-25039 since 02/03/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/30/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• IBM

Name

• Engineering Requirements Management DOORS and DOORS Web Access

Version

• 9.6.1.0
• 9.6.1.1
• 9.6.1.2
• 9.6.1.3
• 9.6.1.4
• 9.6.1.5
• 9.6.1.6
• 9.6.1.7
• 9.6.1.8
• 9.6.1.9
• 9.6.1.10
• 9.6.1.11
• 9.6.1.12
• 9.6.1.13
• 9.7.2.0
• 9.7.2.1
• 9.7.2.2
• 9.7.2.3
• 9.7.2.4
• 9.7.2.5
• 9.7.2.6
• 9.7.2.7
• 9.7.2.8
• 9.7.2.9
• 9.7.2.10
• 9.7.2.11

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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