Security Bulletin: The IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Management is impacted by vulnerabilties in Google Guava

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in Google Guava, which is used in IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - IBM Jazz. This bulletin contains information regarding vulnerabilities and remediation actions.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-2976
**DESCRIPTION:**Google Guava could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw with using Java’s default temporary directory for file creation in FileBackedOutputStream. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access the files in the default Java temporary directory, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258199 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Adopted new Google Guava 32.1.2 version

STEPS TO APPLY THE REMEDIATION:

Advising users who are on ELM 7.0, 7.0.1 or any other version below 7.0.2 to upgrade your products to Maintenance release 7.0.2 version as these products have reached end of life. Optionally, upgrade to the latest 7.0.3 version and apply below fix.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None