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Security Bulletin: An vulnerability in 3rd party library jackson-databind affect IBM Spectrum LSF Suite, IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer and IBM Platform Application Center

Security Bulletin


Summary

There is an vulnerability(CVE-2020-36518) in in 3rd party library jackson-databind affect IBM Spectrum LSF Suite, IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer and IBM Platform Application Center,

Vulnerability Details

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

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer

10.2.0.x

(x <=12)

IBM Platform Application Center

10.2.0.x

(x <=12)

IBM Spectrum LSF Suite

10.2.0.x

(x <=12)


Remediation/Fixes

 

Product

VRMF

APAR

Remediation/First Fix

IBM Spectrum LSF Suite 

 

IBM Platform Application Center

 

IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.2.0.x

(x <=12)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

None

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  1. Download  jackson-databind-2.12.6.jar, jackson-core-2.12.6 .jar, jackson-annotations-2.12.6 .jar jackson-jaxrs-base-2.12.6 .jar , jackson-jaxrs-json-provider-2.12.6 .jar,  jackson-module-jaxb-annotations-2.12.6 .jar  from: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/ , 
  2. Copy the package into the Application Center  host.
  3. On the Application Center host, stop pmc service by "pmcadmin stop"
  4. On the Application Center host, replace jackson-*-2.10.0.jar and jackson-*-2.9.2.jar with new jar jackson-*-2.12.6.jar.

# cd $GUI_TOP/        

# find . -name "jackson-*"
./3.0/wlp/usr/servers/platform/apps/platform.war/WEB-INF/lib/jackson-annotations-2.10.0.jar
./3.0/wlp/usr/servers/platform/apps/platform.war/WEB-INF/lib/jackson-core-2.10.0.jar
./3.0/wlp/usr/servers/platform/apps/platform.war/WEB-INF/lib/jackson-databind-2.10.0.jar
./3.0/wlp/usr/servers/platform/apps/platform.war/WEB-INF/lib/jackson-jaxrs-base-2.10.0.jar
./3.0/wlp/usr/servers/platform/apps/platform.war/WEB-INF/lib/jackson-jaxrs-json-provider-2.10.0.jar
./3.0/wlp/usr/servers/platform/apps/platform.war/WEB-INF/lib/jackson-module-jaxb-annotations-2.10.0.jar
./3.0/wlp/usr/servers/notification/apps/notification.war/WEB-INF/lib/jackson-annotations-2.9.2.jar
./3.0/wlp/usr/servers/notification/apps/notification.war/WEB-INF/lib/jackson-core-2.9.2.jar
./3.0/wlp/usr/servers/notification/apps/notification.war/WEB-INF/lib/jackson-databind-2.9.2.jar

    5. On the Application Center host, start pmc service by "pmcadmin start".

Workarounds and Mitigations

the issue will be fixed in next fix patch release FP13 in Q2

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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

08 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.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
29 March 2022

Initial Publish date:
08 March 2022

UID

ibm16567349

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