Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Lightbend Spray spray-json affect IBM Application Performance Management products.

Summary

Lightbend Spray spray-json is used by IBM Application Performance Management.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2018-18854
**DESCRIPTION:**Lightbend Spray spray-json is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error during the parsing of many JSON object fields. By sending a specially-crafted object, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available resources.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/152330 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-2018-18853
**DESCRIPTION:**Lightbend Spray spray-json is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error during the parsing of a field composed of many decimal digits. By sending a specially-crafted object, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available resources.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/152331 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-2018-18855
**DESCRIPTION:**spray spray-json is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled recursion flaw in the JsonParser. By imposing a configurable limit on the depth, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/234265 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Base Private

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Advanced Private| 8.1.4|

The vulnerability can be remediated by applying the following 8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SERVER-IF0014 or later server patch to the system where the Cloud APM server is installed: <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7028410&gt;

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Workarounds and Mitigations

None