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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Open Source Python affects IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (CVE-2020-26116)

Security Bulletin


Summary

A Vulnerability in Open Source Python affects IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (CVE-2020-26116)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-26116
DESCRIPTION:   Python is vulnerable to CRLF injection, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input in http.client. By inserting CR and LF control characters in the first argument of HTTPConnection.request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/189404 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 Application Dependency Discovery Manager 7.3.0.0 - 7.3.0.8

Remediation/Fixes

Fix                                                     
VRMF                  
 APAR How to acquire fix
efix_jython21_253_CVE-2020-26116_FP7200218.zip     
7.3.0.3 - 7.3.0.8
 None Download eFix

Workarounds and Mitigations

The above eFixe(s) for the respective FixPack(s) can be downloaded and applied directly.

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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

25 Nov 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:
12 April 2021

Initial Publish date:
25 November 2020

UID

ibm16377810

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