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Security Bulletin: An Eclipse Jetty vulnerability affects IBM Rational Functional Tester

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Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in Eclipse Jetty used by Rational Functional Tester. Rational Functional Tester has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2022-2047
DESCRIPTION:   Eclipse Jetty could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a flaw in the HttpURI class. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to the HttpClient and ProxyServlet/AsyncProxyServlet/AsyncMiddleManServlet wrongly interpreting an authority with no host as one with a host.
CVSS Base score: 2.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/230668 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-2048
DESCRIPTION:   Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the error handling of an invalid HTTP/2 request. By sending specially-crafted HTTP/2 requests, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the server to become unresponsive, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/230670 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)

IBM X-Force ID:   230016
DESCRIPTION:   Eclipse Jetty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error related to some of the production servers spiking with CPU use. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume CPU that remains high even without any traffic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/230016 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
RFT9.5
RFT10.0
RFT10.1
RFT10.2

 


Remediation/Fixes

 

ProductVersionAPARRemediation/ Fix
RFT9.5 - 10.2.3Nonehttps://download4.boulder.ibm.com/sar/CMA/RAA/0ar6k/0/PSIRT58763_RFT-ifix.zip

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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Change History

16 Aug 2022: 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:
17 August 2022

UID

ibm16612971