A vulnerability in service logging for Cisco Prime Service Catalog could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to deny service to the user

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• cisco prime service catalog11.1.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (cisco). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• n/a Cisco Prime Service Catalog

  • Cisco Prime Service Catalogaffected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2019-1874Cisco Prime Service Catalog Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability
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• CVE-2018-0107A vulnerability in the web framework of Cisco Prime Service Catalog could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute unwanted acti
  35Monitor
• CVE-2015-0581The XML parser in Cisco Prime Service Catalog before 10.1 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of ser
  31Monitor
• CVE-2022-20680Cisco Prime Service Catalog Information Disclosure Vulnerability
  26Monitor
• CVE-2017-12364A SQL Injection vulnerability in the web framework of Cisco Prime Service Catalog could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute
  26Monitor
• CVE-2015-6395Cisco Prime Service Catalog 10.0, 10.0(R2), 10.1, and 11.0 does not properly restrict access to web pages, which allows remote attackers to
  26Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

Code that parses nested structures sets no depth or size limit. A small input can turn into a disproportionate processing load.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1function expand(node) {2  return node.children.map(expand);3}

1const MAX_DEPTH = 32;2function expand(node, depth = 0) {3  if (depth > MAX_DEPTH) throw new Error("too deep");4  return node.children.map((c) => expand(c, depth + 1));5}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.