Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Apache Commons FileUpload affects IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager.

Summary

Vulnerabilitiy in Apache Commons FileUpload affects IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (CVE-2023-24998).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-24998
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Commons FileUpload and Tomcat are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by not limit the number of request parts to be processed in the file upload function. By sending a specially-crafted request with series of uploads, 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/247895 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

In order to fix these vulnerabilities, Apache Commons FileUpload is to be upgraded to version 1.5 .

**For TADDM 7.3.0.0-7.3.0.7,**Please upgrade your TADDM environment to 7.3.0.7 - 7.3.0.10 (Preferably 7.3.0.10) and then download the e-fix given in Table-1 and apply the e-fix.

**For TADDM 7.3.0.7-7.3.0.10,**Please download the e-fix given in Table-1 and apply the e-fix.

Table-1

Fix|

VRMF

| APAR|How to acquire fix
—|—|—|—
efix_CVE-2023-24998_FP8201126.zip|

7.3.0.7 - 7.3.0.8

| None| Download eFix
efix_CVE-2023-24998_FP10221123.zip|

7.3.0.9 - 7.3.0.10

| None| Download eFix

Workarounds and Mitigations

None