Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in eclipse jetty affect IBM Business Automation Workflow

Summary

IBM Business Automation Workflow packages a vulnerable version of the eclipse jetty library.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-27216
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a race condition in the creation of the temporary subdirectory. By sending a specially-crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/190474 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2021-28165
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input valistion. By sending a specially-crafted TLS frame, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause CPU resources to reach to 100% usage.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/199305 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)

CVEID:CVE-2023-26048
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out of memory flaw in the HttpServletRequest.getParameter() or HttpServletRequest.getParts() function. By sending a specially crafted multipart request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253356 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-26049
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw during nonstandard cookie parsing. By sending a specially crafted request to tamper with the cookie parsing mechanism, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain values from other cookies, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 4.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253355 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-36479
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could provide weaker than expected security, caused by an errant command quoting flaw in the org.eclipse.jetty.servlets.CGI Servlet. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base score: 3.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266435 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-40167
**DESCRIPTION:**Jetty is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by improper parsing of the HTTP/1 request header. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266353 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)

Affected Products and Versions

V23.0.2 - V23.0.2-IF004
V23.0.1 all fixes
V22.0.2 all fixes
V22.0.1 all fixes
V21.0.3 - V21.0.3-IF032
V21.0.2 all fixes
V20.0.0.2 all fixes
V20.0.0.1 all fixes

| affected
IBM Business Automation Workflow traditional| V23.0.1 - V23.0.2
V22.0.1 - V22.0.2
V21.0.1 - V21.0.3.1
V20.0.0.1 - V20.0.0.2
V19.0.0.1 - V19.0.0.3| affected
IBM Business Automation Workflow Enterprise Service Bus| V23.0.1 - V23.0.2
V22.0.2| affected

For earlier and unsupported versions of the products, IBM recommends upgrading to a fixed, supported version of the product.

Remediation/Fixes

The recommended solution is to apply the Interim Fix (iFix) or Cumulative Fix (CF) containing APAR DT380148 as soon as practical.

V23.0.1
V22.0.1 - V22.0.2
V21.0.1 - V21.0.3.0
V20.0.0.1 - V20.0.0.2
V19.0.0.1 - V19.0.0.3
V18.0.0.1 - V18.0.0.3

| Upgrade to a long term support release or the latest SSCD version. See IBM Business Automation Workflow and IBM Integration Designer Software Support Lifecycle Addendum

Workarounds and Mitigations

None