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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Jasper used in Jetty 8.1.3 Server where Rational Synergy is deployed

Created by Ramanath Shanbhag on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/2468169
2468169

Security Bulletin


Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in Jasper, Version 2 Service Refresh 2 Fix Pack 2, used by Jetty 8.1.3 is affecting IBM Rational Synergy.

Vulnerability Details

The following are the list of vulnerabilities affecting IBM Rational Synergy:
CVEID: CVE-2018-12538
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote attacker to hijack a user's session, caused by a flaw in the FileSessionDataStore. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain access to another user's session.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/145321 for the current score.
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2017-7658
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by a flaw when handling more than one Content-Length headers. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/145522 for the current score.
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2018-12536
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request to the java.nio.file.InvalidPathException function using an invalid parameter to cause an error message to be returned containing the full installation path. An attacker could 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/145523 for the current score.
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2017-7656
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by a flaw in the HTTP/1.x Parser. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/145520 for the current score.
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2017-7657
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by improper handling of Chunked Transfer-Encoding chunk size. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/145521 for the current score.
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2018-18384
DESCRIPTION: Info-ZIP UnZip is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the list.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151365 for the current score.
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2018-18873
DESCRIPTION: JasPer is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the ras_putdatastd function in ras/ras_enc.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/152318 for the current score.
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2018-19139
DESCRIPTION: JasPer is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak in jas_malloc.c when called from jpc_unk_getparms in jpc_cs.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/153097 for the current score.
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2018-20570
DESCRIPTION: JasPer is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the jp2_encode function in jp2/jp2_enc.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/154998 for the current score.
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2018-20584
DESCRIPTION: JasPer is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when converting the output to jp2 format. By using a specially-crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to hang.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/154954 for the current score.
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2018-20622
DESCRIPTION: JasPer could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a memory leak in base/jas_malloc.c in libjasper.a when "--output-format jp2" is used. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155056 for the current score.
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2019-10247
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the DefaultHandler. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/160610 for the current score.
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-12545
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the additional CPU and memory allocations required to handle changed settings. By sending either large SETTINGs frames container containing many settings, or many small SETTINGs frames, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/161491 for the current score.
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Rational Synergy 7.2.1.0 to 7.2.1.7.
 

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMF APAR Remediation/First Fix
Rational Synergy 7.2.1.0 to 7.2.1.7 N/A
Upgrade to Rational Synergy 7.2.2 supporting Jetty 9.4.14 from IBM Passport Advantage and apply it.
NOTE:
Download the Rational Synergy 7.2.2 installation image by referring to the installation platform and its part number in the following list:
  • IBM Rational Synergy V7.2.2 Linux Informix Multilingual (CC5T9ML)  
  • IBM Rational Synergy V7.2.2 Linux Oracle Multilingual (CC5TAML) 
  • IBM Rational Synergy V7.2.2 Windows Informix Multilingual (CC5TBML) 
For Rational Synergy 7.1.0.x IBM recommends upgrading to a fixed, supported version/release/platform of the product.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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Acknowledgement

None

Change History

3oth March 2020: Original version published

*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.

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Internal Use Only

PSIRT Advisory 12536, Record 117978; PSIRT Advisory 12571, Record 118136; PSIRT Advisory 13714, Record 123884; PSIRT Advisory 13869, Record 125246; PSIRT Advisory 14077, Record 126330; PSIRT Advisory 14687, Record 128662 and 128663; PSIRT Advisory 14696, Record 128761; PSIRT Advisory 16274, Record 136510; PSIRT Advisory 16538, Record 137739.

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Document Information

Modified date:
22 December 2020

UID

ibm12468169