Security Bulletin: Rational Performance Tester contains vulnerabilities which could affect Eclipse Jetty.

Summary

Due to the use of Eclipse Jetty, Rational Performance Tester contains a vulnerability around nonstandard cookie parsing that could allow access to sensitive information, and a vulnerability that could lead to a potential denial of service attack.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-26048
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out of memory flaw in the HttpServletRequest.getParameter() or HttpServletRequest.getParts() function. By sending a specially crafted multipart request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253356 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-26049
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw during nonstandard cookie parsing. By sending a specially crafted request to tamper with the cookie parsing mechanism, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain values from other cookies, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 4.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253355 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Customers are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Rational Performance Tester version 10.5.4.

<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/rational-performance-tester-1054&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None