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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in netty affect IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering (CVE-2019-20445, CVE-2019-20444)

Security Bulletin


Summary

Netty is used by IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering. IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2019-20445
DESCRIPTION:   Netty could provide weaker than expected security, caused by non-proper handling of Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding in the HttpObjectDecoder.java. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/175486 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2019-20444
DESCRIPTION:   Netty is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by a flaw in the HttpObjectDecoder.java. 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/175487 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)
gpfs.tct.server1.1.2
gpfs.tct.server1.1.6
gpfs.tct.server1.1.1
gpfs.tct.server1.1.5
gpfs.tct.server1.1.7
gpfs.tct.server1.1.3

Remediation/Fixes

For Transparent Cloud Tiering 1.1.1.0 thru 1.1.7.4, apply Transparent Cloud Tiering 1.1.8.0 bundled with IBM Spectrum Scale V5.0.5.0 available from Fix Central at:

 

https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Spectrum+Scale&release=5.0.5&platform=All&function=all

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

26 May 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
26 May 2020

Initial Publish date:
26 May 2020

UID

ibm16216874

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