CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2016-3000 — Ibm Connections security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 4.3

The help service in IBM Connections 4.x through 4.5 CR5, 5.0 before CR4, and 5.5 before CR1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (service degradation) via a crafted URL.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
4.3 (3.0)
Published
2016-09-26
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Affected products

  • ibm / connections / 4.0.0.0
  • ibm / connections / 4.5.0.0
  • ibm / connections / 5.0.0.0
  • ibm / connections / 5.5.0.0

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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