Security Bulletin: A Security Vulnerability in IBM® WebSphere Application Server Liberty affect IBM LKS Administration and Reporting Tool and its Agent

Summary

A security vulnerability, related to Apache Commons Compress library, has been found in the IBM® WebSphere Application Server Liberty used by IBM LKS Administration and Reporting Tool and its Agent. A fix has been identified and is being published here.

Vulnerability Details

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 the latest ART/Agent 9.0 iFix 5 from Fix Central.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None