Security Bulletin: IBM App Connect Enterprise & IBM Integration Bus are vulnerable to a denial of service due to Eclipse Mosquitto (CVE-2021-41039, CVE-2021-34432, CVE-2021-34431)

Summary

IBM App Connect Enterprise & IBM Integration Bus are vulnerable to a denial of service due to Eclipse Mosquitto (CVE-2021-41039, CVE-2021-34432, CVE-2021-34431) The fix includes Eclipse Mosquitto v2.0.15

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-41039
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Mosquitto is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending specially-crafted CONNECT packets containing lots of “user properties”, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause excessive CPU usage and loss of performance, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/214367 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-2021-34432
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Mosquitto is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending a PUBLISH packet with zero value of length topic, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the server to crash.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/206468 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2021-34431
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Mosquitto is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak flaw in the broker. By sending a specially-crafted CONNECT message, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/206314 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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 & IBM Integration Bus

Product(s)

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Version(s)

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APAR

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Remediation / Fix

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IBM App Connect Enterprise

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v12.0.1.0 - v12.0.8.0

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IT43353

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Interim fix for APAR (IT43353) is available to apply to 12.0.8.0 from

IBM Fix Central

IBM App Connect Enterprise

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v11.0.0.0 -v11.0.0.20

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IT43353

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Interim fix for APAR (IT43353) is available to apply to 11.0.0.20 from

IBM Fix Central

IBM Integration Bus

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v10.1

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IT43353

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Interim fix for APAR (IT43353) is available to apply to 10.1 from

IBM Fix Central

IBM Integration Bus

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v10.0.0.0 -v10.0.0.26

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IT43353

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Interim fix for APAR (IT43353) is available to apply to 10.0.0.26 from

IBM Fix Central

Workarounds and Mitigations

None