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Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in jackson-databind shipped with IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact (CVE-2020-36518, WS-2021-0616)

Security Bulletin


Summary

jackson-databind is shipped with IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact. Information about a security vulnerability affecting jackson-databind has been published in a security bulletin.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-36518
DESCRIPTION:   FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Java StackOverflow exception. By using a large depth of nested objects, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222319 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)

IBM X-Force ID:   217968
DESCRIPTION:   FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when using JDK serialization to serialize and deserialize JsonNode values. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217968 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact7.1.0

Remediation/Fixes

ProductVRMFAPARRemediation
IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact 7.1.07.1.0.26IJ39574Upgrade to IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact 7.1.0 FP26

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

16 Jun 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:
06 July 2022

Initial Publish date:
16 June 2022

UID

ibm16601521

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