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Security Bulletin: Information disclosure vulnerability in WebSphere Application Server Liberty

Security Bulletin


Summary

This security bulletin addresses the Information Disclosure vulnerability that has been found to impact Websphere Liberty in IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-5258
DESCRIPTION:   Dojo dojo could allow a remote attacker to inject arbitrary code on the system, caused by a prototype pollution flaw. By injecting other values, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite, or pollute, a JavaScript application object prototype of the base object.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/177751 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager7.3.0

Remediation/Fixes

The eFix in the table below can be downloaded and applied directly.

FixVRMFAPARHow to acquire fix
efix_WLP_PSIRT_21004_FP6190313.zip      7.3.0.5 - 7.3.0.6None     Download eFix
efix_WLP_PSIRT_21004_FP8201126.zip 7.3.0.7 -7.3.0.8NoneDownload eFix





Note:
Before TADDM 7.3.0.5, Java 7 was used and the upgraded Liberty version 21.0.0.4 requires Java8. Hence, no eFix can be provided for versions before 7.3.0.5.
For customers on TADDM FixPack 3 or FixPack 4, recommendation is to upgrade to a later version and then follow the steps mentioned above.

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

25 May 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
25 May 2021

Initial Publish date:
25 May 2021

UID

ibm16455951

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