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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Verify Governance is vulnerable to denial of service due to use of Apache Commons Compress (CVE-2021-35517, CVE-2021-36090, CVE-2021-35515, CVE-2021-35516)

Description

## Summary IBM Security Verify Governance uses Apache Commons Compress which could allow a denial of service by a remote attacker, caused by multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-35517, CVE-2021-36090, CVE-2021-35515, CVE-2021-35516). The fix includes upgrading the Commons Collections jar to the patched version. ## Vulnerability Details ** CVEID: **[CVE-2021-35517](<https://vulners.com/cve/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](<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](<https://vulners.com/cve/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](<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) ** CVEID: **[CVE-2021-35515](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-35515>) ** DESCRIPTION: **Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop flaw in the construction of the list of codecs that decompress an entry. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted 7Z archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' sevenz package. CVSS Base score: 5.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205304](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205304>) 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-2021-35516](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-35516>) ** 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 7Z archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition against services that use Compress' sevenz package. CVSS Base score: 7.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See: [ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205306](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205306>) 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 Affected Product(s)| Version(s) ---|--- IBM Security Verify Governance| 10.0 ## Remediation/Fixes Affected Product(s) | Version(s) | First Fix ---|---|--- IBM Security Verify Governance | 10.0.1 | [10.0.1.0-ISS-ISVG-IGVA-FP0002](<https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/downloadFixes?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Tivoli/IBM+Security+Verify+Governance&release=10.0.0.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=10.0.1.0-ISS-ISVG-IGVA-FP0002&includeRequisites=1&includeSupersedes=0&downloadMethod=http>) ## Workarounds and Mitigations None ##


Affected Software


CPE Name Name Version
ibm security verify governance 10.0

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