Security Bulletin: IBM Spectrum Conductor with spring-security-config is vulnerable to Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Summary

IBM Spectrum Conductor with spring-security-config is vulnerable to Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-34042
**DESCRIPTION:**VMware Tanzu Spring Security could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an incorrect permission assignment for spring-security.xsd file inside the spring-security-config jar. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to write the spring-security.xsd file.
CVSS Base score: 4.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/267747 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly suggests the following remediation or fix:

Upgrade to the latest versions of IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.5.1 with security patch (IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.5.1 with Fix 601861).

Workarounds and Mitigations

None