Vulnerability · Published Feb 23, 2022 · Assigned by ibm

CVE-2022-22333

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Sterling Secure Proxy from IBM. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 48% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 51.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

IBM Sterling Secure Proxy 6.0.3.0, 6.0.2.0, and 3.4.3.2 and IBM Sterling External Authentication Server are vulnerable a buffer overflow, due to the Jetty based GUI in the Secure Zone not properly validating the sizes of the form content and/or HTTP headers submitted. A local attacker positioned inside the Secure Zone could submit a specially crafted HTTP request to disrupt service. IBM X-Force ID: 219133.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
IBM Sterling Secure Proxy 3.4.3.26.0.3.06.0.2.0

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