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Security Bulletin: Aspera Web Shares application is affected by NGINX Vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-12208, CVE-2019-12207)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Aspera Shares has addressed the following NGINX vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2019-12208
DESCRIPTION:   NGINX njs is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the njs_function_native_call function in njs/njs_function.c. By sending overly long data, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/161282 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)

CVEID:   CVE-2019-12207
DESCRIPTION:   NGINX njs is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the nxt_utf8_encode function in nxt/nxt_utf8.c. By sending overly long data, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/161281 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 Aspera Shares1.9.12

Remediation/Fixes

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Aspera Shares1.9.14

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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Change History

07 Feb 2020: 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 February 2020

UID

ibm13644211