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Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server shipped with IBM WebSphere Application Server Patterns is vulnerable to remote code execution due to Dojo (CVE-2021-23450)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM WebSphere Application Server is shipped as a component of IBM WebSphere Application Server Patterns. There is a vulnerability in the Dojo library used by IBM WebSphere Application Server traditional in the Admin Console and used by the IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty with the adminCenter-1.0 feature enabled that allows arbitrary code to be executed in the browser. Information about security vulnerabilities affecting IBM WebSphere Application Server has been published and is referenced in this security bulletin.

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
  • 8.5
  • 8.0

IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty:

  • 17.0.0.03 - 22.0.0.2

Remediation/Fixes

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

Important: Please Read
Starting May 12th, 2022, "WebSphere Application Server Patterns" security bulletins will not include vulnerability notifications about products listed in the following table. You must subscribe to notifications for the individual products to receive their security bulletins, as indicated in the "My Notification Product Subscriptions" column.

Supporting Products

My Notification Product Subscriptions

WebSphere Application Server

WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment

WebSphere Application Server Liberty

 

WebSphere Application Server

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition

Runtimes for Java Technology

IBM HTTP Server

IBM HTTP Server

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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

28 Apr 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:
06 May 2022

Initial Publish date:
28 April 2022

UID

ibm16583565

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