SB2025051926 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Storage Copy Data Management
Published: May 19, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-34055)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Web Observations. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that application is using Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux and that org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-actuator is on the classpath.
2) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5007)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to both Spring Security and the Spring Framework rely on URL pattern mappings for authorization and for mapping requests to controllers respectively. A remote attacker can trigger the vulnerability to bypass security restrictions.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.