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Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

CVE-2024-55909

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

IBM Concert Software 1.0.0 through 1.0.5 could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service due to the expansion of archive files without controlling resource consumption.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-409 - Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

The software does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published