Security Bulletin: IBM Cognos Analytics has addressed multiple vulnerabilities

Summary

Security vulnerabilities have been addressed in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 FP3.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-27218
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw when GZIP request body inflation is enabled. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject data into the body of the subsequent request.
CVSS Base score: 4.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/192459 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2021-20461
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Cognos Analytics is susceptible to a weakness in the implementation of the System Appearance configuration setting. An attacker could potentially bypass business logic to modify the appearance and behavior of the application.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196770 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2019-17632
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the error messages to inject malicious script into a Web page which would be executed in a victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the page is viewed. 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/172261 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-2020-27216
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a race condition in the creation of the temporary subdirectory. By sending a specially-crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/190474 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2019-17638
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty, as bundled in Jenkins, could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an issue with corrupt HTTP response buffer being sent to different clients. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 9.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/185436 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L)

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-2017-7656
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by a flaw in the HTTP/1.x Parser. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/145520 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2017-7657
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by improper handling of Chunked Transfer-Encoding chunk size. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/145521 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2017-7658
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by a flaw when handling more than one Content-Length headers. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/145522 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2018-12545
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the additional CPU and memory allocations required to handle changed settings. By sending either large SETTINGs frames container containing many settings, or many small SETTINGs frames, 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/161491 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-2018-12536
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request to the java.nio.file.InvalidPathException function using an invalid parameter to cause an error message to be returned containing the full installation path. An attacker could 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/145523 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-2019-10241
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the DefaultServlet and ResourceHandler. 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/160676 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-2019-10247
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the DefaultHandler. By sending a specially-crafted request, 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/160610 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-2017-9735
**DESCRIPTION:**Jetty could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a timing channel flaw in util/security/Password.java. By observing elapsed times before rejection of incorrect passwords, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain access information.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/127842 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-2019-10246
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when configured for showing a listing of directory contents. By sending a specially-crafted request, 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/160611 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-2020-28491
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML jackson-dataformats-binary is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an unchecked allocation of byte buffer flaw. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exception resulting in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197038 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-2021-28163
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when the ${jetty.base} directory or the ${jetty.base}/webapps directory is a symlink. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain webapp directory contents information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 2.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/199303 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/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-2021-28164
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by improper input validation by the default compliance mode. By sending specially-crafted requests with URIs that contain %2e or %2e%2e segments, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access 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/199304 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)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0

Remediation/Fixes

For IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.x :

The recommended solution is to apply the fix for the versions listed as soon as practical.

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 FP3

For IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.x:

The recommended solution is to apply the latest available version of IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.x.

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.13 Fix Pack 4

Applicable vulnerabilities have already been addressed in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.0 prior to GA release

Workarounds and Mitigations

None