Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM CICS TX Advanced has been updated in order to address multiple vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2024-47535
DESCRIPTION: Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. An unsafe reading of environment file could potentially cause a denial of service in Netty. When loaded on an Windows application, Netty attempts to load a file that does not exist. If an attacker creates such a large file, the Netty application crashes. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.1.115.
CWE: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVSS Source: CVE.org
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2024-11168
DESCRIPTION: The urllib.parse.urlsplit() and urlparse() functions improperly validated bracketed hosts (`[]`), allowing hosts that weren't IPv6 or IPvFuture. This behavior was not conformant to RFC 3986 and potentially enabled SSRF if a URL is processed by more than one URL parser.
CWE: CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVSS Source: CISA ADP
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2024-9287
DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been found in the CPython `venv` module and CLI where path names provided when creating a virtual environment were not quoted properly, allowing the creator to inject commands into virtual environment "activation" scripts (ie "source venv/bin/activate"). This means that attacker-controlled virtual environments are able to run commands when the virtual environment is activated. Virtual environments which are not created by an attacker or which aren't activated before being used (ie "./venv/bin/python") are not affected.
CWE: CWE-428: Unquoted Search Path or Element
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2025-0938
DESCRIPTION: The Python standard library functions `urllib.parse.urlsplit` and `urlparse` accepted domain names that included square brackets which isn't valid according to RFC 3986. Square brackets are only meant to be used as delimiters for specifying IPv6 and IPvFuture hosts in URLs. This could result in differential parsing across the Python URL parser and other specification-compliant URL parsers.
CWE: CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
CVSS Source: IBM
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM CICS TX Advanced | 10.1 |
| IBM CICS TX Advanced | 11.1 |
Remediation/Fixes
IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerabilities now by downloading and applying the below fixes.
| Product | Version | Platform | Remediation/Fix |
| IBM CICS TX Advanced | 10.1 |
Linux |
Download and apply the update from Fix Central here. |
| IBM CICS TX Advanced |
11.1 |
Linux |
Download and apply the update from Fix Central here. |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
28 Apr 2025: 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
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Document Information
Modified date:
28 April 2025
Initial Publish date:
28 April 2025
UID
ibm17231953