Security Bulletin: A Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Pivotal Spring Framework affects IBM LKS Administration & Reporting Tool and its Agent

Summary

A Privilege Escalation related vulnerability has been found in Pivotal Spring Framework used by IBM LKS Administration & Reporting Tool (ART) and its Agent. A fix has been published.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-22118
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Spring Framework could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a flaw in the WebFlux application. By sending a specially-crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges to read or modify files in the WebFlux application, or overwrite arbitrary files with multipart request data.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/202705 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to ART/Agent 9.0 iFix 3 from here.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None