Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring has applied security fixes for its use of IBM Websphere Liberty (CVE-2021-35517, CVE-2021-36090)

Summary

IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring has applied security fixes for its use of IBM Websphere Liberty. IBM Websphere Liberty is uses as a middleware server.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-35517
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out of memory error when allocating large amounts of memory. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TAR archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress’ tar package.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205307 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2021-36090
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-memory error when large amounts of memory are allocated. By reading a specially-crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress’ zip package.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205310 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

Upgrade to IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management 2.3 Fix Pack 2 by following the instructions at <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-management/2.3.x?topic=installation-upgrade&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None