Security Bulletin: A vulnerability have been identified in Netty shipped with IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Transport Module Common Integration Library (CVE-2019-16869)

Security Bulletin

Summary

Netty is a dependency component shipped with the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Transport Module Common Integration Library for Message Bus Integration. Information about security vulnerabilities affecting Netty has been published. (CVE-2019-16869)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2019-16869
DESCRIPTION: Netty before 4.1.42.Final mishandles whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers (such as a "Transfer-Encoding : chunked" line), which leads to HTTP request smuggling.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/167672 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Integration - Transport Module Common Integration Library	common-transportmodule-12_0 up to and including common-transportmodule-22_0

Remediation/Fixes

Updated Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Integration - Transport Module Common Integration Library	common-transportmodule-23_0

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

31 Jan 2020: 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.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Security Bulletin: A vulnerability have been identified in Netty shipped with IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Transport Module Common Integration Library (CVE-2019-16869)