SB2023090737 - Cleartext transmission of sensitive information in IBM Application Performance Management products 



SB2023090737 - Cleartext transmission of sensitive information in IBM Application Performance Management products

Published: September 7, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023090737
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Local access
Highest impact Code execution

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Cleartext transmission of sensitive information (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-3166)

The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.

In Apache Hadoop versions 2.6.1 to 2.6.5, 2.7.0 to 2.7.3, and 3.0.0-alpha1, if a file in an encryption zone with access permissions that make it world readable is localized via YARN's localization mechanism, that file will be stored in a world-readable location and can be shared freely with any application that requests to localize that file.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.