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HistoryDec 04, 2020 - 6:34 a.m.

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Urllib3 affects IBM Spectrum Protect Container and Microsoft File Systems Agents (CVE-2020-26137)

2020-12-0406:34:59
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12

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

74.7%

Summary

Urllib3 is vulnerable to CRLF injection which could allow a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting, cache poisoning, or session hijacking attacks. This vulnerability may affect the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container agent for Kubernetes and the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Microsoftยฎ Windows File Systems agent.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-26137
**DESCRIPTION:**urllib3 is vulnerable to CRLF injection. By inserting CR and LF control characters in the first argument of putrequest(), a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/189426 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Agent for Kubernetes (Linux) 10.1.5-10.1.6
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Microsoft File Systems Agent (Windows) 10.1.6

Remediation/Fixes

Spectrum Protect Plus Release First Fixing VRM Level Platform Link to Fix
10.1 10.1.7 Linux
Windows <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6330495&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

CPENameOperatorVersion
ibm spectrum protect pluseq10.1