CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2016-2983 — Ibm Tealeaf Customer Experience security vulnerability

High CVSS 8.1

IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience 8.7, 8.8, and 9.0.2 could allow a remote attacker under unusual circumstances to read operational data or TLS session state for any active sessions, cause denial of service, or bypass security. IBM X-Force ID: 113999.

Severity
High
CVSS
8.1 (3.0)
Published
2018-01-26
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Affected products

  • ibm / tealeaf_customer_experience / 8.7
  • ibm / tealeaf_customer_experience / 8.8
  • ibm / tealeaf_customer_experience / 9.0.2

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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