Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring has applied security fixes for its use of FasterXML Jackson (CVE-2022-42003)

Summary

IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring has patched its use of FasterXML Jackson due to vulnerabilities of resource exhaustion.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-42003
**DESCRIPTION:**FasterXML jackson-databind is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a lack of a check in the primitive value deserializers when the UNWRAP_SINGLE_VALUE_ARRAYS feature is enabled. By sending a specially-crafted request using deep wrapper array nesting, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available resources.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237662 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management 2.3 Fix Pack 6 by following the instructions in <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-management/2.3.x?topic=installation-upgrade&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None