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Security Bulletin: The Community Edition of IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio is affected by a vulnerability in libcurl (CVE-2021-22945)

Security Bulletin


Summary

The Community Edition of IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio on Windows platform only has addressed the following vulnerability: libcurl is vulnerable to a denial of service.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-22945
DESCRIPTION:   cURL libcurl is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free and double free flaw when sending data to an MQTT server. By sending a specially-crafted data, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/209451 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 ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio (COS)20.1.0.1
IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio (COS)20.1
IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio (COS)12.10
IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio (COS)12.9
IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio (COS)12.8

Remediation/Fixes

Please replace the initial DLL version with the fixed version 7.79.1 available on Fix Central.
MD checksum: 343C94A75FD43F7F04CDE8A079C58E67

How to upgrade:

  • locate the CPLEX binaries directory: `%CPLEX_STUDIO_DIR%/cplex/bin/x64_win64` where `%CPLEX_STUDIO_DIR%` is the location where your CPLEX is installed.
  • download the new `libcurl.dll`
  • copy `libcurl.dll` to your CPLEX binaries directory (you might need administrative rights).

Workarounds and Mitigations

There is no workaround or mitigation

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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

Acknowledgement

Change History

04 Oct 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:
04 October 2021

Initial Publish date:
04 October 2021

UID

ibm16495403

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