Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in the Java JDK affect IBM Event Streams (CVE-2022-21496, CVE-2022-21434, CVE-2022-21443)

Summary

There are a number of vulnerabilities in the Java JDK used by IBM Event Streams.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-21496
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the JNDI component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224777 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-21434
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224718 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2022-21443
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224726 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

10.0.0, 10.1.0, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.3.1, 10.4.0, 10.5.0, 11.0.0, 11.0.1

IBM Event Streams (Extended Update Support)

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10.2.0-eus, 10.2.1-eus (2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4,2.2.5)

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading

IBM Event Streams (Continuous Delivery)

• Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 11.0.2 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

IBM Event Streams (Extended Update Support)

• Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 10.2.1-eus (2.2.6) by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None