Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities affect the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit and the IBM Integration Bus Toolkit

Summary

The IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit and the IBM Integration Bus Toolkit are vulnerable, as per the CVEs listed in the Vulnerability Details section. These vulnerabilities affect some development tasks in the product toolkit. [CVE-2022-29599] and [CVE-2020-10683] only affect Test and Java projects if they have been configured to be a Maven project. The resolving fix has been provided in the Remediation Fixes table

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-10683
**DESCRIPTION:**dom4j could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an XML external entity (XXE) error when processing XML data. By sending specially crafted XML data, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/181356 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2018-8032
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Axis is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the default servlet/services. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted URL to execute script in a victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim’s cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/147823 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2014-3596
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Axis and Axis2 could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by and incomplete fix related to the failure to verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject’s Common Name (CN) field of the X.509 certificate. By persuading a victim to visit a Web site containing a specially-crafted certificate, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to spoof an SSL server.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95377 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2019-0227
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Axis is vulnerable to server-side request forgery, caused by an expired hard coded domain, used in a default example service named StockQuoteService.jws. By using a man-in-the-middle attack to force an HTTP request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct an SSRF attack, allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/159283 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2012-5784
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Axis 1.4, as used in multiple products, could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by the failure to verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject’s Common Name (CN) field of the X.509 certificate. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to spoof an SSL server and launch further attacks against a vulnerable target.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79829 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

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-2023-26049
**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-2010-2232
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Derby could allow a remote attacker to overwrite arbitrary files, caused by a flaw in the Export functionality. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134130 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)

CVEID:CVE-2015-1832
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Derby could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a XML external entity (XXE) error when processing XML data by the XML datatype and XmlVTI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 6.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/115625 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)

CVEID:CVE-2009-4269
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Derby could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the reduction of the size of the set of inputs to SHA-1 by the password hash generation algorithm managed by the BUILTIN authentication functionality. By generating hash collisions, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crack passwords and obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 2.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61202 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-28169
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the ConcatServlet. By sending a specially-crafted request using a doubly encoded path, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information from protected resources within the WEB-INF directory, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/203492 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2047
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw in the HttpURI class. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to the HttpClient and ProxyServlet/AsyncProxyServlet/AsyncMiddleManServlet wrongly interpreting an authority with no host as one with a host.
CVSS Base score: 2.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/230668 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2020-27223
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when handling a request containing multiple Accept headers with a large number of quality parameters. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust minutes of CPU time.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197559 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-2022-40146
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Batik is vulnerable to server-side request forgery, caused by a flaw in the DefaultScriptSecurity function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct SSRF attack to access files using a Jar url.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236847 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-38648
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Batik is vulnerable to server-side request forgery, caused by a flaw when calling the fop function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct SSRF attack to fetch external resources.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236846 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-38398
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Batik is vulnerable to server-side request forgery, caused by a flaw in the DefaultExternalResourceSecurity function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct SSRF attack to load a url thru the jar protocol.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236845 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-29599
**DESCRIPTION:**maven-shared-utils could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by the emission of double-quoted strings without proper escaping by the Commandline class. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/225489 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2020-13936
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Velocity could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a sandbox bypass flaw. By modifying the Velocity templates, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with the same privileges as the account running the Servlet container.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197993 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability/vulnerabilities now by applying the appropriate fix to IBM App Connect Enterprise and IBM Integration Bus.

Interim fix for APAR (IT43697) is available to apply to 12.0.8.0 from

IBM Fix Central

IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit | 11.0.0.1 - 11.0.0.20| IT43697|

Interim fix for APAR (IT43697) is available to apply to 11.0.0.20 from

IBM Fix Central

IBM Integration Bus Toolkit| 10.1| IT43697|

Interim fix for APAR (IT43697) is available to apply to 10.1 from

IBM Fix Central

Workarounds and Mitigations

None