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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities of Mozilla Firefox (less than Firefox 78.9.0 ESR + CVE-2021-23978) have affected Synthetic Playback Agent 8.1.4.0-8.1.4 IF13 + CP4MCM2.2

Security Bulletin


Summary

Synthetic Playback Agent has addressed the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-23978, CVE-2021-23968, CVE-2021-23969, CVE-2021-23973

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-23978
DESCRIPTION:   Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by memory safety bugs within the browser engine. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197286 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-23968
DESCRIPTION:   Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error when the full destination of a redirect served in the frame was reported in the violation report. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain the destination of a redirect.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197288 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-23969
DESCRIPTION:   Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to correctly set the source file to be the destination of the redirects when creating a violation report. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain the destination of a redirect.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197285 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-23973
DESCRIPTION:   Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error when trying to load a cross-origin resource in an audio/video context. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain information about the resource.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197295 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
APM AMNA
APM SaaSNA
APM on-premise8.1.4
CP4MCM DataCollectors
2.2


Remediation/Fixes

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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Acknowledgement

Change History

27 Apr 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:
11 May 2021

UID

ibm16447459