CVE-2025-33090

7.5

IBM · Concert Software

IBM Concert Software 1.0.0 through 1.1.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack via an inefficient regular expression that causes excessive resource consumption.

Executive summary

A remote, unauthenticated attacker can trigger a denial of service condition in IBM Concert Software through the submission of specially crafted input.

Vulnerability

This vulnerability is classified as CWE-1333, Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity, which allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause resource exhaustion by sending malicious requests that trigger complex processing patterns.

Business impact

Successful exploitation results in a denial of service, rendering the affected IBM Concert Software instance unresponsive to legitimate user traffic. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this high severity vulnerability poses a significant risk to system availability, which could lead to operational downtime and disruption of critical business processes.

Remediation

Immediate Action: Review the official IBM security advisory at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7242354 to identify and apply the necessary patches or configuration changes provided by the vendor.

Proactive Monitoring: Monitor system resource usage, specifically CPU and memory consumption, for sudden spikes that correlate with incoming network traffic patterns.

Compensating Controls: Deploy a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to inspect incoming request bodies and filter out potentially malicious payloads designed to trigger complex regular expression evaluations.

Exploitation status

Public Exploit Available: No (exploit_available: false).

Analyst recommendation

Given the potential for service disruption and the ease of exploitation, organizations should prioritize the identification of all affected IBM Concert Software instances. Administrators must apply the vendor provided security updates as soon as they are made available to ensure the stability and availability of the platform.

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