Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in FasterXML affects IBM Common Licensing's Administration And Reporting Tool (ART) and its Agent (217968, CVE-2020-36518)

Summary

Security Vulnerablities have been addressed in IBM Common Licensing. Faster-XML Jackson is a JSON to Java object conversion API (217968, CVE-2020-36518). A fix is available to address the vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-36518
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a Java StackOverflow exception. By using a large depth of nested objects, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222319 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)

**IBM X-Force ID:**217968
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when using JDK serialization to serialize and deserialize JsonNode values. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217968 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading and applying the suggested fix that uses upgraded version of FasterXML.

Apply IBM_LKS_Administration_And_Reporting_Tool_And_Agent_90_iFix6 from Fix Central.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None