Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities of Jackson-Mapper-asl have affected APM Linux KVM Agent

Summary

APM Linux KVM Agent is vulnerable to Jackson-mapper-asl vulnerabilities described in CVE-2019-10202 and CVE-2019-10172. The fix includes jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.13.jar upgraded to jackson-databind-2.14.0.jar

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-10202
**DESCRIPTION:**Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper deserialization in Codehaus. By sending a specially-crafted request, 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/168251 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)

CVEID:CVE-2019-10172
**DESCRIPTION:**Jackson-mapper-asl could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an XML external entity (XXE) error when processing XML data. By sending a specially-crafted XML data, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/172436 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading:

APM Linux KVM Agent release 8.1.4.0.20

Linux KVM Agent Version: 08.23.05.00

Download the APM Advanced Agents installer from Passport Advantage. Please refer below link for download instructions:

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/capmp/8.1.4?topic=advantage-part-numbers&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None