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Security Bulletin: IBM Sterling Control Center vulnerable to denial of service due to Spring Boot and remote code execution due to Spring Framework

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Sterling Control Center containerized image uses VMWare Tanzu Spring Boot and Pivotal Spring Framework. This bulletin identifies the steps to take to address the vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2023-20883
DESCRIPTION:   VMware Tanzu Spring Boot is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when Spring MVC is used together with a reverse proxy cache. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255809 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)

CVEID:   CVE-2016-1000027
DESCRIPTION:   Pivota Spring Framework could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization flaw in the library. By sending specially-crafted input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/174367 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Sterling Control Center6.3.0.0

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading ...

Product

Version

Remediation

IBM Sterling Control Center

6.3.0.0 GA through iFix03

6.3.0.0 iFix04 Fix Central - 6.3.0.0

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

07 Feb 2024: 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:
07 February 2024

UID

ibm17116050