Security Bulletin: IBM UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) is vulnerable to a HTTP tequest smuggling vulnerability (CVE-2023-45648)

Summary

Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by improper parsing of HTTP trailer headers. By sending a specially crafted invalid trailer header, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-45648
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by improper parsing of HTTP trailer headers. By sending a specially crafted invalid trailer header, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268200 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly suggests the following:

Upgrade affected versions to any of 7.0.5.19, 7.1.2.15, 7.2.3.8, 7.3.2.3, or 8.0.0.0 or later

Workarounds and Mitigations

None