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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime Affect IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (CVE-2020-27221, CVE-2020-14782)

Security Bulletin


Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 1.8 used by IBM Sterling Secure Proxy. IBM Sterling Secure Proxy has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-27221
DESCRIPTION:   Eclipse OpenJ9 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow when the virtual machine or JNI natives are converting from UTF-8 characters to platform encoding. By sending an overly long string, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/195353 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2020-14782
DESCRIPTION:   An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/190100 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Secure Proxy6.0.2
IBM Secure Proxy6.0.1
IBM Sterling Secure Proxy3.4.3.2

Remediation/Fixes


Product

VRMF

iFix

Remediation/First Fix

IBM Secure Proxy

6.0.2.0

iFix 3

Fix Central

IBM Secure Proxy

6.0.1.1

6.0.2.0 iFix 3

Fix Central

IBM Sterling Secure Proxy

3.4.3.2

iFix 12

Fix Central

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 Aug 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:
27 August 2021

UID

ibm16484671

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