Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Apache Struts affect IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager. (CVE-2021-31805)

Summary

Vulnerabilities in Apache Struts affect IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (CVE-2021-31805)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-31805
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Struts could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a double evaluation of tag attributes. By forcing OGNL evaluation of specially-crafted data using the %{…} syntax, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/223990 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

In order to fix this vulnerability, please follow the below steps:

For TADDM 7.3.0.7 - 7.3.0.9, please download the below efix and apply it.

Please get familiar with eFix readme in etc/<efix_name>_readme.txt

For TADDM 7.3.0.0 - 7.3.0.6, please upgrade TADDM to 7.3.0.7 or above(preferably the latest release 7.3.0.9) and apply the above efix.

Workarounds and Mitigations

The above eFix is applicable can be downloaded and applied directly.