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Security Bulletin: IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - Jazz Foundation is impacted by vulnerabilities in Eclipse Jetty

Security Bulletin


Summary

Vulnerabilities have been identified in Eclipse Jetty, which is used in IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - Jazz Foundation.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-28165
DESCRIPTION:   In Eclipse Jetty 7.2.2 to 9.4.38, 10.0.0.alpha0 to 10.0.1, and 11.0.0.alpha0 to 11.0.1, CPU usage can reach 100% upon receiving a large invalid TLS frame.
CWE:   CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2018-12545
DESCRIPTION:   In Eclipse Jetty version 9.3.x and 9.4.x, the server is vulnerable to Denial of Service conditions if a remote client sends either large SETTINGs frames container containing many settings, or many small SETTINGs frames. The vulnerability is due to the additional CPU and memory allocations required to handle changed settings.
CWE:   CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2020-27216
DESCRIPTION:   In Eclipse Jetty versions 1.0 thru 9.4.32.v20200930, 10.0.0.alpha1 thru 10.0.0.beta2, and 11.0.0.alpha1 thru 11.0.0.beta2O, on Unix like systems, the system's temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. A collocated user can observe the process of creating a temporary sub directory in the shared temporary directory and race to complete the creation of the temporary subdirectory. If the attacker wins the race then they will have read and write permission to the subdirectory used to unpack web applications, including their WEB-INF/lib jar files and JSP files. If any code is ever executed out of this temporary directory, this can lead to a local privilege escalation vulnerability.
CWE:   CWE-378: Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   7.8
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - Jazz Foundation

7.0.3 to 7.0.3 iFix017

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - Jazz Foundation

7.1.0 to 7.1.0 iFix004

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to iFixes detailed below:

IBM recommends customers on ELM 7.0.1, 7.0.2 or any version below 7.0.3 to upgrade your products to Maintenance release 7.0.3 and apply below fix.

Optionally, upgrade to the latest 7.2.0 version.

Affected Product(s)Version(s)Remediation/Fix/Instructions

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - Jazz Foundation

7.0.3Download and install iFix018 or later

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - Jazz Foundation

7.1.0Download and install iFix005 or later

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

27 Jan 2026: 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:
27 January 2026

Initial Publish date:
27 January 2026

UID

ibm17258065