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Security Bulletin: IBM CICS TX Standard is vulnerable to a denial of service exposure due to IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition

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Summary

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition is used by CICS TX Standard to run WebSphere Liberty, Fix Installer and Java based CICS applications. The fix removes the denial of service vulnerability CVE-2022-21299 from IBM SDK, JTE.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2022-21299
DESCRIPTION:   An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the JAXP component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217594 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM CICS TX StandardAll

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability by downloading and applying the interim fixes from the table below  

ProductVersionDefectRemediation / First Fix
IBM CICS TX Standard
11.1
127795Download fix here

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

28 Sep 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

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
14 February 2023

UID

ibm16824777