Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in libthrift affect IBM Application Performance Management products

Summary

libthrift jar is used by IBM Application Performance Management.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2018-1320
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Thrift could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the disablement of an assert used to determine if the SASL handshake had successfully completed. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass SASL negotiation isComplete validation in the org.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslTransport class.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155199 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-2019-0205
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Thrift is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when processing untrusted Thrift payload. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/169460 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