IBM WebSphere Portal up to 8.5 CF05 resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in IBM WebSphere Portal up to 8.5 CF05. This affects an unknown part. This manipulation causes resource management. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2015-1899. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in IBM WebSphere Portal up to 8.5 CF05 (Application Server Software). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5 through CF05 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via unspecified vectors.

The weakness was disclosed 05/25/2015 (Website). The advisory is shared at www-01.ibm.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2015-1899 since 02/19/2015. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 83872 (IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5.0 < 8.5.0 CF06 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (83872), SecurityFocus (BID 74173†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-50215†). The entries VDB-74892, VDB-75095 and VDB-76446 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 83872
Nessus Name: IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5.0 < 8.5.0 CF06 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Recommended: no mitigation known
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02/19/2015 🔍
05/07/2015 +77 days 🔍
05/18/2015 +11 days 🔍
05/24/2015 +6 days 🔍
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05/19/2022 +2551 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: ibm.com

Advisory: www-01.ibm.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2015-1899 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-1899
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-75517
SecurityFocus: 74173
Vulnerability Center: 50215 - IBM WebSphere Portal Remote DoS via a Crafted Request, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 05/25/2015 15:55
Updated: 05/19/2022 09:55
Changes: 05/25/2015 15:55 (57), 06/29/2017 07:15 (2), 05/19/2022 09:55 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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