SB2020030413 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Pivotal Reactor Netty

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-5403)

CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

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

The vulnerability exists due to the affected software is exposed to a URISyntaxException that causes the connection to be closed prematurely instead of producing a 400 response. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

2) Insufficiently protected credentials (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-5404)

CWE-ID: CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

The vulnerability exists due to insufficiently protected credentials in the HttpClient. A remote user can cause a credentials leak during a redirect to a different domain.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2020-5403
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2020-5404