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Security Bulletin: Rational Test Control Panel component in Rational Test Virtualization Server and Rational Test Workbench is vulnerable to a denial of service attack in Spring Framework (CVE-2022-22971)

Security Bulletin


Summary

Spring Framework is vulnerable to a security issue affecting Rational Test Control Panel

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2022-22971
DESCRIPTION:   Vmware Tanzu Spring Framework is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw with a STOMP over WebSocket endpoint. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/226492 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
Rational Test Control Panel component in Rational Test Virtualization Server9.2.1.1, 9.5, 10.0.2.1, 10.1.3, 10.2.3, 10.5.0
Rational Test Control Panel component in Rational Test Workbench9.2.1.1, 9.5, 10.0.2.1, 10.1.3, 10.2.3, 10.5.0

* All versions prior to those shown are affected. Upgrade to the latest versions shown.


Remediation/Fixes

  1.  Verify the version of Rational Test Control Panel
  2.  Download the fix for your product from Fix Central, this can be obtained for either Rational Test Workbench or Rational Test Virtualization Server by selecting the product and relevant version before browsing for fixes.  Select and download the fix pack named Rational-RTCP-<product-name>-<product-version>-CVE-2022-22971-ifix for your selected product.
  3.  Stop Rational Test Control Panel
  4.  Navigate to the existing Rational Test Control Panel installation
        The default installation locations for these files are:
            Windows: C:\Program Files\IBM\RationalTestControlPanel\
            AIX, Linux, Solaris: /opt/IBM/RationalTestControlPanel/
  5. Copy the contents of the "usr" directory as a backup
  6. Unzip the downloaded fix into the RationalTestControlPanel directory, overwriting the existing files.
  7. Start Rational Test Control Panel

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

12 Sep 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:
16 September 2022

Initial Publish date:
12 September 2022

UID

ibm16620933

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