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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities may affect IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition

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Summary

Java SE issues disclosed in the Oracle July 2021 Critical Patch Update, minus CVE-2021-2341. CVE-2021-2341 will be covered in an additional bulletin.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-2388
DESCRIPTION:   An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the VM component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205815 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-2369
DESCRIPTION:   An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Library component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205796 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-2432
DESCRIPTION:   An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the JNDI component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205856 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

7.0.0.0 - 7.0.10.85
7.1.0.0 - 7.1.4.85
8.0.0.0 - 8.0.6.30
11.0.9.0 - 11.0.11.0

For detailed information on which CVEs affect which releases, please refer to the IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Security Vulnerabilities page.

Note: CVE-2021-2388 affects IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition on Solaris, HP-UX and Mac OS only

Remediation/Fixes

7.0.10.90
7.1.4.90
8.0.6.35
IBM Semeru 11.0.12

Note: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition version 11 is now IBM Semeru 11 Certified Edition. Future vulnerability fixes for IBM Semeru Certified Edition will be described in security bulletins for IBM Semeru.

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition releases can be downloaded, subject to the terms of the developerWorks license, from the Java Developer Center.

IBM Semeru releases can be downloaded from the IBM Semeru Developer Center.

IBM customers requiring an update for an SDK shipped with an IBM product should contact IBM support, and/or refer to the appropriate product security bulletin.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

18 Aug 2021: Initial Publication
13 Sep 2021: Removed CVE-2021-2341. Added Remediation/Fixes information for IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition version 11 (now IBM Semeru Certified Edition)

*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:
13 September 2021

UID

ibm16482173