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Security Bulletin: IBM Sterling Partner Engagement Manager is vulnerable to Slowloris HTTP DOS attack (CVE-2022-35639)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Sterling Partner Engagement Manager is vulnerable to Slowloris attack is a type of denial-of-service (DoS) attack which targets threaded web servers. The issue has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2022-35639
DESCRIPTION:   IBM Sterling Partner Engagement Manager do not limit the length of a connection which could cause the server to become unresponsive.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/230932 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
IBM Sterling Partner Engagement Manager Standard Edition 6.1
IBM Sterling Partner Engagement Manager Standard Edition 6.2
IBM Sterling Partner Engagement Manager on Cloud / SaaS 22.2

Remediation/Fixes

Product Version Remediation / Link
IBM Sterling Partner Engagement Manager Standard Edition 6.1 6.1.2.5 / http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder?product=ibm%2FOther+software%2FIBM+Sterling+Partner+Engagement+Manager+Software&fixids=IBM_PEM_Standard_6.1.2.5&source=SAR
IBM Sterling Partner Engagement Manager Standard Edition 6.2 6.2.0.3 / http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder?product=ibm%2FOther+software%2FIBM+Sterling+Partner+Engagement+Manager+Software&fixids=IBM_PEM_Standard_6.2.0.3&source=SAR
IBM Sterling Partner Engagement Manager on Cloud / SaaS 22.2 22.2.1 / us.icr.io/gold/pem:22.2.1

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

18 Jul 2022: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
25 March 2025

UID

ibm16606969

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