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Security Bulletin: IBM CICS TX Advanced is vulnerable to no confidentiality impact, high integrity impact, and no availability impact (CVE-2021-2163)

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Summary

IBM CICS TX Advanced could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, high integrity impact, and no availability impact. The fix removes this vulnerability (CVE-2021-2163) from IBM CICS TX Advanced.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-2163
DESCRIPTION:   An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, high integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/200292 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM CICS TX Advanced10.1
IBM CICS TX Advanced11.1

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability by downloading and applying the interim fixes from the table below

       Product 

       Version 

      Defect 

        Remediation / First Fix 

  IBM CICS TX Advanced 

11.1

127890

Download fix from here

IBM CICS TX Advanced 

10.1

127890

Download fix from here

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

07 Oct 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:
14 February 2023

Initial Publish date:
07 October 2022

UID

ibm16827845