Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Eclipse Jetty affects IBM Process Mining (CVE-2020-27223,CVE-2021-28169)

Security Bulletin

Summary

There is a vulnerability in Eclipse Jetty that could allow an attacker to launch a DOS attack. The code is used by IBM Process Mining. This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address the vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2020-27223
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when handling a request containing multiple Accept headers with a large number of quality parameters. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust minutes of CPU time.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197559 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2021-28169
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the ConcatServlet. By sending a specially-crafted request using a doubly encoded path, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information from protected resources within the WEB-INF directory, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/203492 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Process Mining	1.12.0.3

Remediation/Fixes

Remediation/Fixes guidance:

Product(s)

Version(s) number and/or range

Remediation/Fix/Instructions

IBM Process Mining

1.12.0.3

Upgrade to version 1.12.0.4

1.Login to PassPortAdvantage

2. Search for
M05JKML Process Mining 1.12.0.4 Server Multiplatform Multilingual

3. Download package

4. Follow install instructions

5. Repeat for M05JJML Process Mining 1.12.0.4 Client Windows Multilingual

Workarounds and Mitigations

None known

Get Notified about Future Security Bulletins

Subscribe to My Notifications to be notified of important product support alerts like this.

References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

Off

Review this information as needed and upgrade.

Acknowledgement

Change History

12 Apr 2022: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

Review the IBM security bulletin disclaimer and definitions regarding your responsibilities for assessing potential impact of security vulnerabilities to your environment.

Document Location

Worldwide

[{"Business Unit":{"code":"BU059","label":"IBM Software w\/o TPS"},"Product":{"code":"SS2JQC","label":"IBM Cloud Pak for Automation"},"Component":"Process Mining","Platform":[{"code":"PF040","label":"RedHat OpenShift"},{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"},{"code":"PF031","label":"Ubuntu"},{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"}],"Version":"1.12.0.3","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB45","label":"Automation"}}]

Tips

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Eclipse Jetty affects IBM Process Mining (CVE-2020-27223,CVE-2021-28169)