Security Bulletin: Operations Dashboard is vulnerable to Netty vulnerabilities CVE-2021-37136 and CVE-2021-37137

Summary

Operations Dashboard is vulnerable to Netty vulnerabilities CVE-2021-37136 and CVE-2021-37137 with details of each below

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-37136
**DESCRIPTION:**Netty netty-codec is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by not allow size restrictions for decompressed data in the Bzip2Decoder. By sending a specially-crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/211777 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-2021-37137
**DESCRIPTION:**Netty netty-codec is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by not restrict the chunk length in the SnappyFrameDecoder. By sending a specially-crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause excessive memory usage, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/211779 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Operations Dashboard version 2020.4.1 in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
Upgrade Operations Dashboard to 2020.4.1-4-eus using the Operator upgrade process described in the IBM Documentation
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-integration/2020.4?topic=components-upgrading-operations-dashboard&gt;

Operations Dashboard version 2021.1.1, 2021.2.1, and 2021.3.1 in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration
Upgrade Operations Dashboard to 2021.4.1 using the Operator upgrade process described in the IBM Documentation
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-integration/2021.4?topic=capabilities-upgrading-integration-tracing&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None