Security Bulletin: IBM Event Streams is vulnerable to a denial of service due to the Eclipse Jetty component (CVE-2023-36478).

Summary

IBM Event Streams is vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) due to the Eclipse Jetty component. Eclipse Jetty provides a Web server and javax. servlet container, plus support for Web Sockets, OSGi, JMX, JNDI, JASPI, AJP and many other integrations.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-36478
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow and buffer allocation in MetaDataBuilder.checkSize. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268413 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 strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading

IBM Event Streams (Continuous Delivery)

• Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 11.3.1 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None