Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in hadoop-hdfs-2.7.3.jar affect IBM Application Performance Management products

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in hadoop-hdfs-2.7.3.jar used by IBM Application Performance Management. IBM Application Performance Management has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2018-11768
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Hadoop is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a mismatch in the size of the fields used to store user/group information between memory and disk representation. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the user/group information to be corrupted across storing in fsimage and reading back from fsimage.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/168305 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-2020-9492
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Hadoop could allow a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by improper validation of SPNEGO authorization header. By sending a specially-crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges to trigger services to send server credentials to a webhdfs path for capturing the service principal.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/195656 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Base Private

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Advanced Private| 8.1.4|

The vulnerability can be remediated by applying the following 8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SERVER-IF0014 or later server patch to the system where the Cloud APM server is installed: <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7028410&gt;

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Workarounds and Mitigations

None