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Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Apache Commons Compress affect WebSphere Application Server & WAS Liberty is vulnerable to Information Exposure

Description

## Summary This security bulletin addresses the Information Disclosure vulnerability that has been found to impact Websphere Liberty in IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager. ## Vulnerability Details ** 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-2021-29842](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-29842>) ** DESCRIPTION: **IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, 9.0 and Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 21.0.0.9 could allow a remote user to enumerate usernames due to a difference of responses from valid and invalid login attempts. IBM X-Force ID: 205202. CVSS Base score: 3.7 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205202](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205202>) 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) ## Affected Products and Versions Affected Product(s)| Version(s) ---|--- IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager| 7.3.0.3 - 7.3.0.9 | ## Remediation/Fixes The eFix in the table below can be downloaded and applied directly. **Fix**| **VRMF**| **APAR**| **How to acquire fix** ---|---|---|--- efix_WLP_PSIRT_210010_FP6190313.zip | 7.3.0.5 - 7.3.0.6| None | [Download eFix](<https://www.secure.ecurep.ibm.com/download/?id=J6XgUzIFzi3Dm5dCcajDfWhPE7PVHqZbuPXZ9Ok4VQc> "Download eFix" ) efix_WLP_PSIRT_210010_FP9211123.zip| 7.3.0.7 -7.3.0.9| None| [Download eFix](<https://www.secure.ecurep.ibm.com/download/?id=neXkMKEo4SJWiPKfAu7g0Pu8AXKM6ZRxGd0zPwFz9YA> "Download eFix" ) **Note:** Before TADDM 7.3.0.5, Java 7 was used and the upgraded Liberty version 21.0.0.10 requires Java8. Hence, no eFix can be provided for versions before 7.3.0.5. For customers on TADDM FixPack 3 or FixPack 4, recommendation is to upgrade to a later version and then follow the steps mentioned above. ## Workarounds and Mitigations None ##


Affected Software


CPE Name Name Version
tivoli application dependency discovery manager 7.3.0.

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