CVE-2018-1997

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-04-08 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

IBM Business Automation Workflow and Business Process Manager 18.0.0.0, 18.0.0.1, and 18.0.0.2 are vulnerable to a denial of service attack. An authenticated attacker might send a specially crafted request that exhausts server-side memory. IBM X-Force ID: 154774.

Affected products

IBM Business Automation Workflow: 18.0.0.0, 18.0.0.1, 18.0.0.2
IBM Business Process Manager: 8.5.5.0, 8.5.6.0, 8.5.6.0-cf1, 8.5.6.0-cf2, 8.5.7.0, 8.5.7.0-cf2017.06 (+2)

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/154774
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10794831
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/154774
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10794831

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