Security Bulletin
Summary
Urllib3 is vulnerable to CRLF injection which could allow a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting, cache poisoning, or session hijacking attacks. This vulnerability may affect the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container agent for Kubernetes and the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Microsoft® Windows File Systems agent.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2020-26137
DESCRIPTION: urllib3 is vulnerable to CRLF injection. By inserting CR and LF control characters in the first argument of putrequest(), a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/189426 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
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Agent for Kubernetes (Linux) | 10.1.5-10.1.6 |
| IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Microsoft File Systems Agent (Windows) | 10.1.6 |
Remediation/Fixes
| Spectrum Protect Plus Release | First Fixing VRM Level | Platform | Link to Fix |
| 10.1 | 10.1.7 |
Linux Windows | https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6330495 |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
04 December 2020: Initial Publication
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Location
Worldwide
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Document Information
Modified date:
04 December 2020
UID
ibm16378264