Security Bulletin: IBM Datapower Operations Dashboard is vulnerable to a denial of service CVE-2023-43642

Summary

snappy-java is used by the IBM Datapower Operations Dashboard as a compressor/decompressor for Java

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-43642
**DESCRIPTION:**snappy-java is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by missing upper bound check on chunk length. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/267079 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to version 1.0.20.1

https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?fixids=DPOD-1.0.20.1&product=ibm%2FWebSphere%2FWebSphere%20DataPower%20SOA%20Appliances&source=dbluesearch&mhsrc=ibmsearch_a&mhq=dpod&function=fixId&parent=ibm/WebSphere

Workarounds and Mitigations

None