Security Bulletin
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 Licensing | Agent 9.0 |
| IBM Common Licensing | ART 9.0 |
Remediation/Fixes
Upgrade to ART/Agent 9.0 iFix 3 from here.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
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