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Security Bulletin: A denial of service vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Liberty Profile affects IBM Spectrum Conductor and IBM Spectrum Conductor with Spark

Security Bulletin


Summary

There is a denial of server vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Liberty Profile used by IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.4.1, IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.4.0, IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.3.0, and IBM Spectrum Conductor with Spark 2.2.1. IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.4.1, IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.4.0, IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.3.0, and IBM Spectrum Conductor with Spark 2.2.1 have addressed the applicable CVE.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2019-4720
DESCRIPTION:   IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by sending a specially-crafted request. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the server to consume all available memory. IBM X-Force ID: 172125.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/172125 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 Spectrum Conductor2.2.1
IBM Spectrum Conductor2.4
IBM Spectrum Conductor2.4.1
IBM Spectrum Conductor2.3

Remediation/Fixes

Product(s)Version(s)APARRemediation/Fixes
IBM Spectrum Conductor with Spark2.2.1Nonecws-2.2.1-build545141
IBM Spectrum Conductor2.3.0Nonesc-2.3-build545140
IBM Spectrum Conductor2.4.0Nonesc-2.4-build545139
IBM Spectrum Conductor2.4.1Nonesc-2.4.1-build545138

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

15 Apr 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:
20 April 2020

Initial Publish date:
15 April 2020

UID

ibm16195363

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