Security Bulletin
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities affect IBM Sterling Secure Proxy and are addressed in the latest release and ifix.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2026-1605
DESCRIPTION: In Eclipse Jetty, versions 12.0.0-12.0.31 and 12.1.0-12.0.5, class GzipHandler exposes a vulnerability when a compressed HTTP request, with Content-Encoding: gzip, is processed and the corresponding response is not compressed.
This happens because the JDK Inflater is allocated for decompressing the request, but it is not released because the release mechanism is tied to the compressed response.
In this case, since the response is not compressed, the release mechanism does not trigger, causing the leak.
CWE: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVSS Source: emo@eclipse.org
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
ID: WS-2026-0003
DESCRIPTION: The non-blocking (async) JSON parser in jackson-core bypasses the maxNumberLength constraint (default: 1000 characters) defined in StreamReadConstraints. This allows an attacker to send JSON with arbitrarily long numbers through the async parser API, leading to excessive memory allocation and potential CPU exhaustion, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). The standard synchronous parser correctly enforces this limit, but the async parser fails to do so, creating an inconsistent enforcement policy.
CVSS Source: Mend
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Sterling Secure Proxy | 6.2.1.0 - 6.2.1.2 |
Remediation/Fixes
| Product | Affected Version(s) | Fixed-in Version(s) | Remediation |
| IBM Sterling Secure Proxy | 6.2.1.0 - 6.2.1.2 | 6.2.1.2 iFix02 | Fix Central |
IBM strongly advises upgrading as soon as possible.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
24 Jun 2026: Initial Publication
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Document Location
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Document Information
Modified date:
24 June 2026
Initial Publish date:
24 June 2026
UID
ibm17277693