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Maximo Asset Management Spring4shell vulnerability

Question & Answer


Question

Does the Spring Framework (spring4shell) vulnerability affect Maximo Asset Management or Maximo Application Suite environments?

Answer

The vulnerability affects Spring instances with JDK versions 9.0 or higher.
WebSphere Application Server does not ship Spring MVC code. Maximo Asset Management is deployed to WebSphere versions 8.5.x or 9.0.x Those versions use JDK 8 (and earlier).
Maximo uses JDK 8.

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Document Information

Modified date:
08 April 2022

UID

ibm16569553