What is CVE-2024-54170?

CVE-2024-54170 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Entirex, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-02-27.

How severe is CVE-2024-54170?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in IBM Entirex

CVE-2024-54170

IBM EntireX 11.1 could allow a local user to cause a denial of service due to use of a regular expression with an inefficient complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

Vulnerability class: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)

Published 2025-02-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (2.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 3rd percentile — 2.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-1333 — Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

References

www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7184194 (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-54170?: CVE-2024-54170 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Entirex, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-02-27.
How severe is CVE-2024-54170?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.