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Security Bulletin: WebSphere Liberty susceptible to HTTP2 implementation vulnerabilities

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Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® WebSphere Liberty ,Version 8.5.5.8 used by IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2019-9515
DESCRIPTION:   Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Settings Flood attack. By sending a stream of SETTINGS frames to the peer, a remote attacker could consume excessive CPU resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/165181 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-2019-9518
DESCRIPTION:   Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Empty Frame Flooding attack. By sending a stream of frames with an empty payload and without the end-of-stream flag, a remote attacker could consume excessive CPU resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/164904 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-2019-9517
DESCRIPTION:   Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an Internal Data Buffering attack. By opening the HTTP/2 window so the peer can send without constraint and sending a stream of requests for a large response object, a remote attacker could consume excessive CPU resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/165183 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-2019-9512
DESCRIPTION:   Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Ping Flood attack. By sending continual pings to an HTTP/2 peer, a remote attacker could consume excessive CPU resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/164903 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-2019-9514
DESCRIPTION:   Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Reset Flood attack. By opening a number of streams and sending an invalid request over each stream, a remote attacker could consume excessive CPU resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/164640 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-2019-9513
DESCRIPTION:   Multiple vendors are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Resource Loop attack. By creating multiple request streams and continually shuffling the priority of the streams, a remote attacker could consume excessive CPU resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/164639 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 7.3.0.5 - 7.3.0.7

Remediation/Fixes

In order to fix this vulnerability, Liberty was upgraded from 8.5.5.8 to 20.0.0.1. This upgrade is now available as part of TADDM 7.3.0.7 (TIV-ITADDM-FP0007) release.
For download of the FixPack, please refer the below FixCentral Link : 
Download Link : FixCentral
Fix VRMF APAR How to acquire fix
efix_WLP_PSIRT_20001_FP5180802.zip 7.3.0.5 None Download eFix
efix_WLP_PSIRT_20001_FP6190313.zip 7.3.0.6 None Download eFix
Note:
  • Before TADDM 7.3.0.5, Java 7 was used and the upgraded Liberty version 20.0.0.1 requires Java8. Hence, no eFix can be provided for versions before 7.3.0.5

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

03 Mar 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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Document Information

Modified date:
22 May 2020

UID

ibm15691194