CVE-2007-5612 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

CIM Server in IBM Director 5.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption, connection slot exhaustion, and daemon crash) via a large number of idle connections.

Published: 2007-11-21

Score: 7.8 High

EPSS: 3.0% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:3.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:5.10:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director:5.10.3:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2007-5587	CIM Server in IBM Director 5.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption, connection slot exhaustion, and daemon crash) via a large number of idle connections.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02984.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/27752
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018985
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/512193
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MIMG-78YMXE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26509
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3942
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38583

History

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Subscriptions

Ibm Director

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

Published: 2007-11-21T22:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:39:13.620Z

Reserved: 2007-10-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-5612

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-11-21T22:46:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-5612

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-399

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