Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM System Storage Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service and Virtual Disk Service is vulnerable to an improper input validation vulnerability due to Apache Axis. CVE-2023-51441.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2023-51441
DESCRIPTION: ** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache Axis allowed users with access to the admin service to perform possible SSRF
This issue affects Apache Axis: through 1.3.
As Axis 1 has been EOL we recommend you migrate to a different SOAP engine, such as Apache Axis 2/Java. Alternatively you could use a build of Axis with the patch from https://github.com/apache/axis-axis1-java/commit/685c309febc64aa393b2d6… applied. The Apache Axis project does not expect to create an Axis 1.x release
fixing this problem, though contributors that would like to work towards
this are welcome.
CWE: CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM System Storage Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service and Virtual Disk Service | All |
Remediation/Fixes
Fixed in IBM System Storage Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service and Virtual Disk Service release 4.19.1.3
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
27 Oct 2025: Initial Publication
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Document Location
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Document Information
Modified date:
27 October 2025
Initial Publish date:
27 October 2025
UID
ibm17249259