Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Eclipse Jetty affects IBM Process Mining (CVE-2020-27223,CVE-2021-28169)

Summary

There is a vulnerability in Eclipse Jetty that could allow an attacker to launch a DOS attack. The code is used by IBM Process Mining. This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address the vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-27223
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when handling a request containing multiple Accept headers with a large number of quality parameters. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust minutes of CPU time.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197559 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)

CVEID:CVE-2021-28169
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the ConcatServlet. By sending a specially-crafted request using a doubly encoded path, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information from protected resources within the WEB-INF directory, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/203492 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Remediation/Fixes guidance:

Upgrade to version 1.12.0.4

1.Login to PassPortAdvantage

2. Search for
M05JKML Process Mining 1.12.0.4 Server Multiplatform Multilingual

3. Download package

4. Follow install instructions

5. Repeat for M05JJML Process Mining 1.12.0.4 Client Windows Multilingual

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Workarounds and Mitigations

None known