CVE-2023-40052

HIGH

Progress OpenEdge 11.7-11.7.17 and 12.2-12.2.12 - Denial of Service via Malformed Web Request

Title source: llm

Description

This issue affects Progress Application Server (PAS) for OpenEdge in versions 11.7 prior to 11.7.18, 12.2 prior to 12.2.13, and innovation releases prior to 12.8.0 . An attacker who can produce a malformed web request may cause the crash of a PASOE agent potentially disrupting the thread activities of many web application clients. Multiple of these DoS attacks could lead to the flooding of invalid requests as compared to the server’s remaining ability to process valid requests.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Product product

https://www.progress.com/openedge

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory

https://community.progress.com/s/article/Important-Progress-OpenEdge-Product-Alert-for-Progress-Application-Server-for-OpenEdge-PASOE-Denial-of-Service-Vulnerability-in-WEB-Transport

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 9.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (2)

progress/openedge 11.7 - 11.7.18

progress/openedge_innovation < 12.8.0

Published Jan 18, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026