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Security Bulletin: IBM InfoSphere Information Server is vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability in Angular.js

Security Bulletin


Summary

A denial of service vulnerability in Angular.js used by IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer was addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2016-4055
DESCRIPTION:   The Node.js moment module is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the regular expression implementation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a regular expression to cause the application to hang.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112574 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
InfoSphere Information Server 11.7

Remediation/Fixes

Product VRMF APAR Remediation/First Fix
InfoSphere Information Analyzer, Information Server on Cloud 11.7 JR63476
 		 --Apply InfoSphere Information Server version 11.7.1.0
--Apply InfoSphere Information Server version 11.7.1.0 Fix Pack 1
--Apply InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.1.1 Service Pack 2

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Contact Technical Support:

In the United States and Canada dial 1-800-IBM-SERV
View the support contacts for other countries outside of the United States.
Electronically open a Service Request with Information Server Technical Support.

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

08 Jul 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:
08 July 2021

Initial Publish date:
08 July 2021

UID

ibm16468579

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