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Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Apache Commons Compress affect WebSphere Application Server & WAS Liberty is vulnerable to Information Exposure

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Summary

This security bulletin addresses the Information Disclosure vulnerability that has been found to impact Websphere Liberty in IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-35517
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out of memory error when allocating large amounts of memory. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TAR archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' tar package.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205307 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)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-36090
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-memory error when large amounts of memory are allocated. By reading a specially-crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' zip package.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205310 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)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-29842
DESCRIPTION:   IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, 9.0 and Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 21.0.0.9 could allow a remote user to enumerate usernames due to a difference of responses from valid and invalid login attempts. IBM X-Force ID: 205202.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205202 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager7.3.0.3 - 7.3.0.9
  

Remediation/Fixes

The eFix in the table below can be downloaded and applied directly.

FixVRMFAPARHow to acquire fix
efix_WLP_PSIRT_210010_FP6190313.zip    7.3.0.5 - 7.3.0.6None     Download eFix
efix_WLP_PSIRT_210010_FP9211123.zip7.3.0.7 -7.3.0.9NoneDownload eFix
 
Note:
Before TADDM 7.3.0.5, Java 7 was used and the upgraded Liberty version 21.0.0.10 requires Java8. Hence, no eFix can be provided for versions before 7.3.0.5.
For customers on TADDM FixPack 3 or FixPack 4, recommendation is to upgrade to a later version and then follow the steps mentioned above.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

03 Dec 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:
31 March 2022

Initial Publish date:
03 December 2021

UID

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