Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities may affect IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition

Summary

This bulletin covers all applicable Java SE CVEs published by Oracle as part of their April 2022 Critical Patch Update, except for CVE-2022-21426 which will be described in a future bulletin. For more information please refer to Oracle’s April 2022 CPU Advisory and the X-Force database entries referenced below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-21496
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the JNDI component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224777 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-21434
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224718 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-21443
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224726 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

7.0.0.0 - 7.0.11.5
7.1.0.0 - 7.1.5.5
8.0.0.0 - 8.0.7.6

For detailed information on which CVEs affect which releases, please refer to the IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Security Vulnerabilities page.

Remediation/Fixes

7.0.11.10
7.1.5.10
8.0.7.10

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition releases can be downloaded, subject to the terms of the developerWorks license, from the Java Developer Center.

IBM customers requiring an update for an SDK shipped with an IBM product should contact IBM support, and/or refer to the appropriate product security bulletin.

APAR numbers are as follows:

IJ39998 (CVE-2022-21496)
IJ40000 (CVE-2022-21434)
IJ40004 (CVE-2022-21443)

Workarounds and Mitigations

None