CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2022-4132 — A flaw was found in JSS

Medium CVSS 5.9

A flaw was found in JSS. A memory leak in JSS requires non-standard configuration but is a low-effort DoS vector if configured that way (repeatedly hitting the login page).

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.9 (3.1)
Published
2023-10-04
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
java/maven
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Affected products

  • dogtagpki / network_security_services_for_java
  • redhat / enterprise_linux / 8.0
  • redhat / enterprise_linux / 9.0

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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