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Security Bulletin: An Eclipse Jetty vulnerability affects IBM Rational Performance Tester (CVE-2020-27216)

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Summary

IBM Rational Performance Tester is affected by an Eclipse Jetty vulnerability than can allow a local authenticated user to gain eleved privileges on the system. By sending a specially-crafted request, an authenticated user could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-27216
DESCRIPTION:   Eclipse Jetty could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a race condition in the creation of the temporary subdirectory. By sending a specially-crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/190474 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
RPT9.5
RPT10.0
RPT10.1

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrading to IBM Rational Performance Tester version 10.1.2 is strongly recommended.

ProductVRMFAPARRemediation/First Fix
RPT9.5Nonehttps://download4.boulder.ibm.com/sar/CMA/RAA/09f5z/0/PSIRT28030-ifix.zip
RPT10.0Nonehttps://download4.boulder.ibm.com/sar/CMA/RAA/09f5z/0/PSIRT28030-ifix.zip

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

20 Jan 2021: 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:
25 January 2021

Initial Publish date:
20 January 2021

UID

ibm16407836

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