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Security Bulletin: IBM Cognos Command Center is affected by multiple vulnerabilities

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## Summary There are vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 8 (CVE-2022-21248, CVE-2022-21293, CVE-2022-21294, CVE-2022-21341, CVE-2021-35578, CVE-2021-35603, CVE-2021-35550) and Eclipse Openj9 (CVE-2021-41035) used by IBM Cognos Command Center. IBM Cognos Command Center 10.2.4 Fix Pack 1 IF15 has addressed the applicable CVEs by upgrading to IBM® Semeru JRE 11.0.14.1. Apache Log4j is used by IBM Cognos Command Center as part of its logging infrastructure. All instances of Apache Log4j v1.x have been upgraded to Apache Log4j v2.17.1 (CVE-2022-23307, CVE-2021-4104). Additionally, upgrades to FasterXML Jackson-Databind, Apache Commons Compress and Apache ActiveMQ have addressed applicable vulnerabilities which are listed below. ## Vulnerability Details ** CVEID: **[CVE-2022-21248](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2022-21248>) ** DESCRIPTION: **An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Serialization component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact. CVSS Base score: 3.7 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217543](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217543>) for the current score. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N) ** CVEID: **[CVE-2022-21293](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2022-21293>) ** DESCRIPTION: **An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors. CVSS Base score: 5.3 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217588](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217588>) for the current score. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L) ** CVEID: **[CVE-2022-21294](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2022-21294>) ** DESCRIPTION: **An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors. CVSS Base score: 5.3 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217589](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217589>) for the current score. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L) ** CVEID: **[CVE-2022-21341](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2022-21341>) ** DESCRIPTION: **An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Serialization component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors. CVSS Base score: 5.3 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217636](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217636>) for the current score. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L) ** CVEID: **[CVE-2021-35578](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-35578>) ** DESCRIPTION: **An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the JSSE component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors. CVSS Base score: 5.3 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/211654](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/211654>) for the current score. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L) ** CVEID: **[CVE-2021-41035](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-41035>) ** DESCRIPTION: **Eclipse Openj9 could allow a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by not throwing IllegalAccessError for MethodHandles that invoke inaccessible interface methods. By persuading a victim to execute a specially-crafted program under a security manager, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges and execute arbitrary code on the system. CVSS Base score: 7.7 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/212010](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/212010>) for the current score. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H) ** CVEID: **[CVE-2021-35517](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-35517>) ** DESCRIPTION: **Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out of memory error when allocating large amounts of memory. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TAR archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' tar package. CVSS Base score: 5.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205307](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205307>) for the current score. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) ** CVEID: **[CVE-2021-36090](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-36090>) ** DESCRIPTION: **Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-memory error when large amounts of memory are allocated. By reading a specially-crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' zip package. CVSS Base score: 7.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205310](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205310>) 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-2021-35603](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-35603>) ** DESCRIPTION: **An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the JSSE component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information resulting in a low confidentiality impact using unknown attack vectors. CVSS Base score: 3.7 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/211676](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/211676>) for the current score. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) ** CVEID: **[CVE-2017-7525](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2017-7525>) ** DESCRIPTION: **Apache Struts could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a deserialization flaw within the Jackson JSON library in the readValue method of the ObjectMapper. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system. CVSS Base score: 9.8 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134639](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134639>) 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-2020-36518](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-36518>) ** DESCRIPTION: **FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Java StackOverflow exception. By using a large depth of nested objects, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. CVSS Base score: 7.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222319](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222319>) 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-2022-23307](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2022-23307>) ** DESCRIPTION: **Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization in the in Apache Chainsaw component. By sending specially-crafted input, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system. CVSS Base score: 9.8 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217462](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217462>) 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-2021-35550](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-35550>) ** DESCRIPTION: **An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the JSSE component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information resulting in a high confidentiality impact using unknown attack vectors. CVSS Base score: 5.9 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/211627](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/211627>) for the current score. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N) ** CVEID: **[CVE-2018-11775](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2018-11775>) ** DESCRIPTION: **Apache ActiveMQ Client could allow a remote attacker to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by a missing TLS hostname verification. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a man-in-the-middle attack between a Java application using the ActiveMQ client and the ActiveMQ server. CVSS Base score: 5.9 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149705](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149705>) for the current score. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N) ** CVEID: **[CVE-2021-4104](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-4104>) ** DESCRIPTION: **Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the deserialization of untrusted data when the attacker has write access to the Log4j configuration. If the deployed application is configured to use JMSAppender, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system. CVSS Base score: 8.1 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/215048](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/215048>) for the current score. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) ## Affected Products and Versions IBM Cognos Command Center 10.2.4.1 ## Remediation/Fixes It is strongly recommended that you apply the most recent security update: [IBM Cognos Command Center 10.2.4 Fix Pack 1 IF16](<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6890671>) [](<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6890675>) ## Workarounds and Mitigations None ##


Affected Software


CPE Name Name Version
cognos command center 10.2.4.1

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