Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Netty shipped with IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Transport Module Common Integration Library (CVE-2021-21290, CVE-2021-21295, CVE-2021-21409)

Summary

Netty is a dependency component shipped with the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Transport Module Common Integration Library for Message Bus Integration. Information about the security vulnerability affecting Netty has been published. (CVE-2021-21290, CVE-2021-21295, CVE-2021-21409)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-21290
**DESCRIPTION:**Netty could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an insecure temp file in Unix-like systems. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197110 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-21295
**DESCRIPTION:**Netty is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by improper validation of Content-Length header by the Http2MultiplexHandler. By sending specially crafted HTTP request headers, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison a web-cache, perform an XSS attack, or obtain sensitive information from request.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/197999 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-21409
**DESCRIPTION:**Netty is vulnerable to request smuggling, caused by improper validation of request, caused by missing validation of content-length. By sending specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison a web-cache, perform an XSS attack, or obtain sensitive information from request.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/199150 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

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