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Security Bulletin: IBM Sterling Control Center is vulnerable to a denial of service due to JDOM (CVE-2021-33813)

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Summary

JDOM is used by IBM Sterling Control Center. A denial of service vulnerability, caused by an XXE issue in SAXBuilder, in JDOM has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-33813
DESCRIPTION:   JDOM is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XXE issue in SAXBuilder. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/203804 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Sterling Control Center6.2.1.0
IBM Sterling Control Center6.2.0.0

Remediation/Fixes

Product

Version

Remediation

IBM Sterling Control Center

6.2.1.0

iFix07 available on Fix Central - 6.2.1.0

IBM Sterling Control Center

6.2.0.0

iFix07 available on Fix Central - 6.2.1.0

OR

iFix18 available on Fix Central - 6.2.0.0

NOTE: This is the last planned 6.2.0.0 iFix release package. Please plan for future Control Center upgrades to 6.2.1.0 iFix07 (or later). 

 

 

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

Acknowledgement

Change History

26 May 2022: Initial Publication
13 June 2022: Provided additional/optional 6.2.0.0 Remediation via upgrade to 6.2.0.0 iFix18 (last planned 6.2.0.0 iFix).

*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 June 2022

Initial Publish date:
26 May 2022

UID

ibm16590297

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