SB2023071715 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM InfoSphere Information Server 

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SB2023071715 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Published: July 17, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023071715
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
  • Critical

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20883)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Specifically, an application is vulnerable if all of the conditions are true:

  • The application has Spring MVC auto-configuration enabled. This is the case by default if Spring MVC is on the classpath.
  • The application makes use of Spring Boot's welcome page support, either static or templated.
  • Your application is deployed behind a proxy which caches 404 responses.


2) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20873)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to security features bypass. A remote attacker can cause security bypass on the target system.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References