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Security Bulletin: IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact is affected by an Apache Ant vulnerability (CVE-2021-36374)

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Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in the Apache Ant shipped with IBM Tivoli Netcool/Impact 7.1.0.22 and below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-36374
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Ant is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-memory error when large amounts of memory are allocated. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205314 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact7.1.0

Remediation/Fixes

ProductVRMFAPARRemediation
IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact 7.1.07.1.0.23IJ34306Upgrade to IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact 7.1.0 FP23

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

07 Nov 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:
08 November 2021

Initial Publish date:
07 November 2021

UID

ibm16514441