Vulnerability · Published Feb 27, 2025 · Assigned by ibm

CVE-2024-54170IBM EntireX denial of service

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity regular-expression denial of service in EntireX from IBM. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 3% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 96.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

IBM EntireX 11.1 could allow a local user to cause a denial of service due to use of a regular expression with an inefficient complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
IBM	EntireX	11.1

Weakness: CWE-1333 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7184194 vendor-advisory