Security Bulletin
Summary
Operations Dashboard is vulnerable to Netty vulnerabilities CVE-2021-37136 and CVE-2021-37137 with details of each below
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2021-37136
DESCRIPTION: Netty netty-codec is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by not allow size restrictions for decompressed data in the Bzip2Decoder. By sending a specially-crafted input, 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/211777 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-2021-37137
DESCRIPTION: Netty netty-codec is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by not restrict the chunk length in the SnappyFrameDecoder. By sending a specially-crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause excessive memory usage, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/211779 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) |
| Operations Dashboard | 2020.4.1 2021.1.1 2021.2.1 2021.3.1 |
Remediation/Fixes
Operations Dashboard version 2020.4.1 in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
Upgrade Operations Dashboard to 2020.4.1-4-eus using the Operator upgrade process described in the IBM Documentation
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-integration/2020.4?topic=components-upgrading-operations-dashboard
Operations Dashboard version 2021.1.1, 2021.2.1, and 2021.3.1 in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
Upgrade Operations Dashboard to 2021.4.1 using the Operator upgrade process described in the IBM Documentation
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-integration/2021.4?topic=capabilities-upgrading-integration-tracing
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
11 Jan 2022: 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:
13 January 2022
Initial Publish date:
11 January 2022
UID
ibm16540614