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Security Bulletin: A Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Pivotal Spring Framework affects IBM LKS Administration & Reporting Tool and its Agent

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Summary

A Privilege Escalation related vulnerability has been found in Pivotal Spring Framework used by IBM LKS Administration & Reporting Tool (ART) and its Agent. A fix has been published.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-22118
DESCRIPTION:   VMware Tanzu Spring Framework could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a flaw in the WebFlux application. By sending a specially-crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges to read or modify files in the WebFlux application, or overwrite arbitrary files with multipart request data.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/202705 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Common LicensingAgent 9.0
IBM Common LicensingART 9.0

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to ART/Agent 9.0 iFix 3 from here.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

30 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.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
03 September 2021

Initial Publish date:
30 August 2021

UID

ibm16486305