Security Bulletin: eDiscovery Manager is affected by an Open Source Apache POI Vulnerability

Summary

eDiscovery Manager addressed the following vulnerability. Apache POI is vulnerable to a denial of service, cause by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when is processing XML data.By using a specially crafted OOXML file, a remote attacker might exploit this vulnerability to use all available CPU resources.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-5644**
DESCRIPTION:** Apache POI is vulnerable to a denial of service, cause by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. By using a specially-crafted OOXML file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available CPU resources.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/123699&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM eDiscovery Manager v2.2.2

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRM|Remediation
—|—|—
IBM eDiscovery Manager| 2.2.2| Use IBM eDiscovery Manager 2.2.2 Interim Fix 0005

Workarounds and Mitigations

NA