Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities were detected in IBM Secure Proxy

Security Bulletin

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Secure Proxy. IBM Secure Proxy has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2021-29725
DESCRIPTION: IBM Sterling Secure Proxy could allow a remote user to consume resources causing a denial of service due to a resource leak.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/201102 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2020-13956
DESCRIPTION: Apache HttpClient could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the improper handling of malformed authority component in request URIs. By passing request URIs to the library as java.net.URI object, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to pick the wrong target host for request execution.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/189572 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2020-27218
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when GZIP request body inflation is enabled. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject data into the body of the subsequent request.
CVSS Base score: 4.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/192459 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2020-27223
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when handling a request containing multiple Accept headers with a large number of quality parameters. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust minutes of CPU time.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197559 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Secure Proxy	6.0.2
IBM Secure Proxy	6.0.1
IBM Sterling Secure Proxy	3.4.3.2

Remediation/Fixes

*Product*	*VRMF*	*iFix*	*Remediation/First Fix*
IBM Secure Proxy	6.0.2.0	iFix 2	Fix Central
IBM Secure Proxy	6.0.1.1	iFix 4	Fix Central
IBM Sterling Secure Proxy	3.4.3.2	iFix 11	Fix Central

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Acknowledgement

Change History

13 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.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities were detected in IBM Secure Proxy