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HistorySep 01, 2021 - 9:12 a.m.

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Urllib3 affects IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Microsoft File Systems Backup and Restore (CVE-2021-33503)

2021-09-0109:12:49
www.ibm.com
9

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

69.2%

Summary

Denial of Service vulnerability in Urllib3 may affect IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Microsoft® File Systems backup and restore.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-33503
**DESCRIPTION:**urllib3 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw due to catastrophic backtracking. By sending a specially-crafted URL request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/203109 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

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Microsoft File Systems backup and restore 10.1.6-10.1.8

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Release First Fixing VRM Level Platform Link to Fix
10.1 10.1.8.2
Windows <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6415111&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None