Security Bulletin
Summary
The Netty library is vulnerable affecting the IBM Transparent Cloud Tiering. IBM Transparent Cloud Tiering fixed the below CVE.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2019-16869
DESCRIPTION: Netty before 4.1.42.Final mishandles whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers (such as a "Transfer-Encoding : chunked" line), which leads to HTTP request smuggling.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/167672 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
Transparent Cloud Tiering 1.1.1.0 thru 1.1.3.10
Transparent Cloud Tiering 1.1.5.0 thru 1.1.7.2
Remediation/Fixes
For Transparent Cloud Tiering 1.1.5.0 thru 1.1.7.2, apply Transparent Cloud Tiering 1.1.7.3 bundled with IBM Spectrum Scale V5.0.4.1 available from FixCentral at:
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
15 Nov 2019: 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:
20 December 2019
UID
ibm11109787