Security Bulletin: IBM API Connect is impacted by a vulnerability in libexpat (CVE-2019-15903)

Summary

IBM API Connect has addressed the following vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-15903
**DESCRIPTION:**In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/166560 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

v2018.4.1.8

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LI81254

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Addressed in IBM API Connect v2018.4.1.8.

All components are impacted.

Follow this link and find the OVA package appropriate

form factor for your installation.

http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=ibm%7EWebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/IBM+API+

Connect&release=2018.4.1.7&platform=All&function=all&source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None