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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Commons FileUpload Affects IBM Sterling Secure Proxy

Created by Daniel Engstrom on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/302739
302739

Security Bulletin


Summary

An Apache Commons Collections vulnerability for handling Java object deserialization was addressed by IBM Sterling Secure Proxy.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-1000031
DESCRIPTION: Apache Commons FileUpload, as used in Novell NetIQ Sentinel and other products, could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by deserialization of untrusted data in DiskFileItem class of the FileUpload library. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the current process.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/117957 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Sterling Secure Proxy 3.4.3 through 3.4.3.0 iFix 5
IBM Sterling Secure Proxy 3.4.2 through 3.4.2.0 iFix 12

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMFAPARHow to acquire fix
IBM Sterling Secure Proxy3.4.3.0IT23654Fix Central
IBM Sterling Secure Proxy3.4.2.0IT23654Fix Central

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

11 January 2018: 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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Document Information

Modified date:
17 December 2019

UID

swg22012458

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