Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by vulnerabilities in Tomcat (CVE-2023-45648, CVE-2023-42795, CVE-2023-42794)

Summary

IBM Security Guardium has addressed these vulnerabilities with an update.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-45648
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by improper parsing of HTTP trailer headers. By sending a specially crafted invalid trailer header, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268200 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-42795
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an incomplete Cleanup vulnerability when recycling various internal objects. By skipping some parts of the recycling process, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information leaking from the current request/response to the next.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268201 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)

CVEID:CVE-2023-42794
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by accumulation of temporary files on Windows when a web application opened a stream for an uploaded file but failed to close the stream. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service due to the disk being full.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268202 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

IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None