Security Bulletin: IBM Integration Bus is vulnerable to a remote attack & denial of service due to Apache Thrift & Apache Commons Codec (CVE-2018-1320, CVE-2019-0205, IBM X-Force ID: 177835)

Summary

IBM Integration Bus is vulnerable to a remote attack & denial of service due to Apache Thrift & Apache Commons Codec (CVE-2018-1320, CVE-2019-0205, IBM X-Force ID: 177835). The fixes include libthrift 0.17.0 & commons-codec version 1.15

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2018-1320
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Thrift could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the disablement of an assert used to determine if the SASL handshake had successfully completed. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass SASL negotiation isComplete validation in the org.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslTransport class.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155199 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2019-0205
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Thrift is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when processing untrusted Thrift payload. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/169460 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

**IBM X-Force ID:**177835
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Commons Codec could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the improper validation of input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a method call to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/177835 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability/vulnerabilities now by applying the appropriate fix to IBM Integration Bus

Product(s)

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Version(s)

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APAR

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Remediation / Fix

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IBM Integration Bus

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v10.1

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IT43354 / IT43355

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Interim fix for libthrift APAR (IT43354) & commons-codec (IT43355) is available to apply to v10.1 from

IBM Fix Central

IBM Integration Bus

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v10.0.0.0 - v10.0.0.26

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IT43354 / IT43355

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Interim fix for libthrift APAR (IT43354) & commons-codec (IT43355) is available to apply to v10.0.0.26 from

IBM Fix Central

Workarounds and Mitigations

None