Security Bulletin: IBM UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) is vulnerable to denial of service due to Jettison-json (CVE-2022-40149, CVE-2022-40150)

Summary

Jettison-json is used by IBM UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) for parsing JSON data. A remote authenticated user may cause high memory usage by sending a request containing specially crafted JSON data. (CVE-2022-40149, CVE-2022-40150)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-40149
**DESCRIPTION:**jettison-json Jettison is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow. By sending a specially-crafted XML or JSON data, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to causes the parser to crash, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236352 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-40150
**DESCRIPTION:**jettison-json Jettison is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out of memory flaw. By sending a specially-crafted XML or JSON data, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to causes the parser to crash, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/236353 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly suggests the following:

Upgrade to any of 6.2.7.18, 7.0.5.13, 7.1.2.9, 7.2.3.2, or 7.3.0.0 or later

Workarounds and Mitigations

None