Security Bulletin: IBM CICS TX Advanced is vulnerable to several no confidentiality exposures due to IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition

Summary

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition is used by CICS TX Advanced to run WebSphere Liberty, Fix Installer and Java based CICS applications. The fix removes the no confidentiality exposure vulnerabilities CVE-2022-21496, CVE-2022-21434 and CVE-2022-21443 from IBM SDK, JTE.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-21496
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the JNDI component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224777 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-21434
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224718 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-21443
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224726 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability by downloading and applying the interim fixes from the table below

Product

| Version| Defect| Remediation / First Fix
—|—|—|—
IBM CICS TX Advanced|

11.1

| 127795| Download fix here
IBM CICS TX Advanced|

10.1

| 127795| Download fix here

Workarounds and Mitigations

None