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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM SDK, Java Technology (CVE-2022-21496 and CVE-2022-21434) affects Power HMC

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Java is used by IBM Power Hardware Management Console (HMC) for running java applications and services. This bulletin provides a remediation for the impacted vulnerabilities, CVE-2022-21496 and CVE-2022-21434 by upgrading IBM Power Hardware Management Console (HMC) respective PTF and thus addressing the exposure to the java vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2022-21496
DESCRIPTION:   An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the JNDI component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224777 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-21434
DESCRIPTION:   An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224718 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
HMC V10.1.1010.0V10.1.1010.0
HMC V9.2.950.0V9.2.950.0

Remediation/Fixes

The following fixes are available on IBM Fix Central at: http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/
Product
VRMF
APAR
Remediation/Fix
Power HMC
V9.2.953.0 ppc
MB04359
Power HMC
V9.2.953.0 x86
MB04358
Power HMC
V10.1.1020.0 ppc
MB04361
Power HMC
V10.1.1020.0 x86
MB04360
 

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

27 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:
28 September 2022

Initial Publish date:
27 September 2022

UID

ibm16824747

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