SB2022112515 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Sterling Control Center

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SB2022112515 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Sterling Control Center

Published: November 25, 2022

Security Bulletin ID SB2022112515
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3733)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application within the AbstractBasicAuthHandler class in urllib. A remote attacker with control over the server can perform regular expression denial of service attack during authentication.


2) Cryptographic issues (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-4160)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to decrypt TLS traffic.

The vulnerability exists due to BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on MIPS. A remote attacker can decrypt TLS traffic. According to vendor, multiple EC algorithms are affected, including some of the TLS 1.3 default curves. 

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires certain pre-requisites for attack, such as obtaining and  reusing private keys. 


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References