Security Bulletin: Multiple Apache CXF vulnerabilities identified in IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager.

Summary

This security bulletin addresses the vulnerabilities in Open Source Apache CXF that affect IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-12423
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache CXF could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when ships with OpenId Connect JWK Keys service. By accessing the JWK keystore file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain the public keys in JWK format, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/174688 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2019-17573
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache CXF is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the services listing page. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted URL to execute script in a victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. 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/174689 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

Note: Before TADDM 7.3.0.5, Java 7 was used and this CXF fix is applicable to Java8. Hence, no eFix can be provided for versions before 7.3.0.5.

Workarounds and Mitigations

For customers on TADDM FixPack 3 or FixPack 4, recommendation is to upgrade to the latest version and then apply the efix directly.