Security Bulletin: TADDM is vulnerable to a denial of service due to vulnerability in Apache Xerces2 J Library

Summary

Apache Xerces2 J used by IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager and is vulnerable to CVE-2012-0881

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2012-0881
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Xerces2 Java is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the XML service. By sending a specially crafted message to an XML service, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume available CPU resources from the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134404 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

In order to fix this vulnerability, Please follow below steps:

**For TADDM 7.3.0.0-7.3.0.9,**Please upgrade your TADDM environment to 7.3.0.10 and then download the e-fix given in Table-1 and apply the e-fix.

**For TADDM 7.3.0.10,**Please download the e-fix given in Table-1 and apply the e-fix.

Table-1

Fix|

VRMF

| APAR|How to acquire fix
—|—|—|—
efix_Xerces-PSIRTS_FP10221123.zip|

7.3.0.10

| None| Download eFix

Please refer to the table below to download TADDM FixPack 7.3.0.10.

Please refer to the URL for TADDM FixPack 7.3.0.10 Release Notes containing more information about the update.

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/taddm/7.3.0?topic=release-notes#relnotes__fp10&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None