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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities affect IBM Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software - September 2021

Security Bulletin


Summary

Vulnerabilities detected in Node.js versions before v14.16.2 affects IBM Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-39134
DESCRIPTION:   Node.js @npmcli/arborist module could allow a local attacker to launch a symlink attack, caused by the failure of multiple dependencies to coexist within the same level in the node_modules hierarchy. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a symbolic link from a temporary file to various files on the system, which could allow the attacker to create and overwrite arbitrary files on the system with elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 8.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/208462 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software

9.6

Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software

9.7


Remediation/Fixes

Available at Fix Central

http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder?product=ibm%2FRational%2FIBM+Rational+Application+Developer+for+WebSphere+Software&fixids=Rational-RAD-PH40823Nodejs-ifix&source=SAR

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Note on uninstall process:

On Windows 10, a warning occurs when uninstalling the fix as follows in Installation Manager:

java.lang.NullPointerException
com.ibm.imcc.win.uninstall.registry.WinUninstallRegistry.getRegistryHive(WinUninstallRegistry.java:306)

...

This warning can be overlooked. The uninstall process was successful.

Change History

11 Nov 2021: 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 November 2021

UID

ibm16516792

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