Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in jsoup may affect Cúram Social Program Management (CVE-2021-37714)

Summary

IBM Cúram Social Program Management uses the jsoup libraries, for which there is a publicly known vulnerability. For this vulnerability jsoup is susceptible to a denial of service attack, caused by improper input validation.

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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

8.0.1

| Visit IBM Fix Central and upgrade to 8.0.1 or a subsequent 8.0.1 release.
Cúram SPM|

7.0.11

| Visit IBM Fix Central and upgrade to 7.0.11_iFix6 or a subsequent 7.0.11 release.

Workarounds and Mitigations

For information about all other versions, contact IBM Cúram Social Program Management customer support.