Security Bulletin: OpenSource Apache Taglibs Vulnerability affects IBM Jazz Reporting Service (CVE-2015-0254)

Summary

Apache Standard Taglibs could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2015-0254
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Standard Taglibs could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. By sending specially-crafted XML data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/101550 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

The recommended solution is to download the appropriate Interim Fix or Fix Pack from Fix Central and apply for each affected product as soon as possible.
Released a iFix version for Jazz Reporting Service 7.0.2 iFix022: To ensure users could protect themselves from this vulnerability, the upgraded version of Apache Taglibs has been released in this ifix.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None