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Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty shipped with IBM WebSphere Application Server Patterns are vulnerable to Clickjacking (CVE-2021-39038)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM WebSphere Application Server is vulnerable to clickjacking when REST API discovery is configured through the WebSphere administrative console Web Container settings to enable the API Discovery service, or through IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty features mpOpenAPI-1.0, mpOpenAPI-1.1, mpOpenAPI-2.0, apiDiscovery-1.0, openapi-3.0 or openapi-3.1. This has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

Refer to the security bulletin(s) listed in the Remediation/Fixes section

Affected Products and Versions

Principal Product and Version(s)

Affected Supporting Product and Version

IBM WebSphere Application Server Patterns:

  • 1.0.0.1 - 1.0.0.7
  • 2.2.0.0 - 2.3.3.3

IBM WebSphere Application Server: 

  • 9.0

IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty:

  • 17.0.0.3 - 22.0.0.2

Remediation/Fixes

Please consult the following security bulletin for vulnerability details and information about fixes.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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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

Change History

18 Mar 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
18 March 2022

Initial Publish date:
18 March 2022

UID

ibm16564771

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