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Security Bulletin: IBM Integration Bus and IBM App Connect Enterprise are vulnerable to a denial of service due to jackson-databind (CVE-2020-36518)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Integration Bus and IBM App Connect Enterprise are vulnerable to a denial of service due to jackson-databind, caused by a Java StackOverflow exception. The fix includes jackson-databind 2.13.3

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)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM App Connect Enterprise12.0.1.0 - 12.0.4.0
IBM App Connect Enterprise11.0.0.0 - 11.0.0.17
IBM Integration Bus  (Windows & Linux only)10.0.0.0 - 10.0.0.26 

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by the applying the appropriate fix to IBM Integration Bus

Product(s)

Version(s)

APAR

Remediation / Fix

IBM Integration Bus  (Windows & Linux only)

v10.0.0.0 - v10.0.0.26

IT41069

Interim fix for APAR (IT41069) is available from 

IBM Fix Central

IBM App Connect Enterprise

v11.0.0.0 -v11.0.0.17

IT41069

 

This APAR is available in IBM App Connect fixpack 11.0.0.18

 

IBM App Connect Enterprise

v12.0.1.0 - v12.0.4.0

IT41069

 

This APAR is available in IBM App Connect fixpack 12.0.5.0

 

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

14 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
30 August 2022

UID

ibm16607101

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