CVE-2018-11056

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-08-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-400

Description

RSA BSAFE Micro Edition Suite, prior to 4.1.6.1 (in 4.1.x), and RSA BSAFE Crypto-C Micro Edition versions prior to 4.0.5.3 (in 4.0.x) contain an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') vulnerability when parsing ASN.1 data. A remote attacker could use maliciously constructed ASN.1 data that would exhaust the stack, potentially causing a Denial Of Service.

Affected products

Dell Bsafe: from 4.1.0 before 4.1.6.1 — fixed in 4.1.6.1
Dell Bsafe Crypto-C: from 4.0.0 before 4.0.5.3 — fixed in 4.0.5.3
Oracle Corporation Oracle Application Testing Suite: 13.3.0.1
Oracle Communications Analytics: 12.1.1
Oracle Communications Ip Service Activator: 7.3.0, 7.4.0
Oracle Core Rdbms: 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.2, 12.2.0.1, 18c, 19c
Oracle Corporation Enterprise Manager Ops Center: 12.3.3, 12.4.0
Oracle Goldengate Application Adapters: 12.3.2.1.0
Oracle Corporation JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools: 9.2
Oracle Real User Experience Insight: 13.1.2.1, 13.2.3.1, 13.3.1.0
Oracle Retail Predictive Application Server: 15.0.3, 16.0.3.0
Oracle Corporation Security Service: 11.1.1.9.0, 12.1.3.0.0, 12.2.1.3.0
Oracle Corporation TimesTen In-Memory Database: before 18.1.4.1.0 — fixed in 18.1.4.1.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Dell Bsafe 4.1.6.1; Dell Bsafe Crypto-C 4.0.5.3; Oracle Corporation TimesTen In-Memory Database 18.1.4.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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