Security Bulletin: IBM Security Verify Governance is vulnerable to denial of service and cross-site scripting due to use of jsoup (CVE-2021-37714, CVE-2015-6748)

Summary

IBM Security Verify Governance uses jsoup which is vulnerable to denial of service and cross-site scripting by a remote attacker, caused by improper input validation (CVE-2021-37714, CVE-2015-6748). The fix includes upgrading the jsoup jar to the patched version.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-37714
**DESCRIPTION:**jsoup is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By sending a specially-crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the HTML and XML parser to get stuck, timeout, or throw unchecked exceptions resulting in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/207858 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-2015-6748
**DESCRIPTION:**jsoup is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input when handling tags without a closing > when reaching EOF. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially crafted HTML to execute script in a victim’s Web browser. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim’s cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/106163 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Affected Product(s)

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Version(s)

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First Fix

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IBM Security Verify Governance

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10.0.1

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10.0.1.0-ISS-ISVG-IGVA-FP0003

Workarounds and Mitigations

None