CVE-2011-1317

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-03-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Memory leak in com.ibm.ws.jsp.runtime.WASJSPStrBufferImpl in the JavaServer Pages (JSP) component in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.1.0.x before 6.1.0.37 and 7.x before 7.0.0.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending many JSP requests that trigger large responses.

Affected products

IBM WebSphere Application Server: 6.1.0, 6.1.0.0, 6.1.0.1, 6.1.0.2, 6.1.0.3, 6.1.0.5 (+27)

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM19500
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27014463
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM19500
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27014463

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