SB2025121611 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Sterling Partner Engagement Manager Essentials Edition
Published: December 16, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 31 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Improper access control (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-48734)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to otherwise restricted functionality.
The vulnerability exists due to improper access restrictions to enum properties. If an application using Commons BeanUtils passes property paths from an external source directly to the getProperty() method of PropertyUtilsBean, an attacker can access the enum’s class loader via the “declaredClass” property available on all Java “enum” objects. Accessing the enum’s “declaredClass” allows remote attackers to access the ClassLoader and execute arbitrary code. The same issue exists with PropertyUtilsBean.getNestedProperty().
2) Improper Authorization (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38827)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authorization.
The vulnerability exists due to presence of Locale dependent exceptions when using String.toLowerCase() and String.toUpperCase() for string comparison. A remote attacker can bypass authorization rules using specially crafted input.
Note, the vulnerability is related to #VU98795 (CVE-2024-38820).
3) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22233)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to String.toLowerCase() has some Locale dependent exceptions when handling case insensitive patterns in DataBinder. A remote attacker can bypass implemented security restrictions by passing specially crafted data to the application.
Note, the vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for #VU98795 (CVE-2024-38820).
4) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38820)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to String.toLowerCase() has some Locale dependent exceptions when handling case insensitive patterns in DataBinder. A remote attacker can bypass implemented security restrictions by passing specially crafted data to the application.
5) 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.
6) Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-9493)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation when processing serialized data. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
7) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-58057)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in BrotliDecoder and some other decompressing decoders. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
8) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-9281)
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to read and manipulate data.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the Oracle Application Express in Oracle Database Server. A remote authenticated user can exploit this vulnerability to read and manipulate data.
9) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-47535)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an unsafe reading of an environment file on Windows. A local user can create an overly large file and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
10) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-26272)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can trick the victim to paste a specially crafted URL-like text into the editor, and then press Enter or Space (in the Autolink plugin) and perform a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
11) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-26271)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can trick the victim to paste a specially crafted text into the Styles input of specific dialogs (in the Advanced Tab for Dialogs plugin) and perform a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
12) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-21587)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the JSSE component in Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. A remote non-authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read and manipulate data.
13) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-30698)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the 2D component in Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. A remote non-authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read and manipulate data.
14) Stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-4447)
The vulnerability allows a local user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability occurs when modifying a file on disk that is read when the JVM starts. A local user can trigger stack-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
15) XML External Entity injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-47621)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted XML code to the affected application and view contents of arbitrary files on the system or initiate requests to external systems.
16) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-25193)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application attempts to load a file that does not exist. A local user can create a large file on the system and crash the application.
Note, the vulnerability affects Windows installations only.
17) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-24970)
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 SslHandler when using native SSLEngine. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted packet to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
18) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-41234)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a reflected file download attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application sets a “Content-Disposition” header with a non-ASCII charset, where the filename attribute is derived from user-supplied input. A remote attacker can trick the victim into downloading arbitrary files from an attacker controlled location.
19) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22227)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to Reactor Netty HTTP client leaks credentials in some specific scenarios with chained redirects. A remote attacker can gain access to sensitive information.
20) Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1000027)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation when processing serialized data. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
21) Improper Authorization (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38821)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authorization.
The vulnerability exists due to improper implementation of authorization checks when accessing static resources in WebFlux application. A remote non-authenticated attacker can bypass authorization process and gain unauthorized access to the application.
22) Insufficient verification of data authenticity (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-41235)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to spoof requests origin.
The vulnerability exists due to the Spring Cloud Gateway accepts the X-Forwarded-* and Forwarded header from untrusted proxies. A remote attacker can manipulate the header information and spoof the IP address of the request source.
23) Uncontrolled memory allocation (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10237)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to unbounded memory allocation. A remote attacker can cause the service to crash and deserialize attacker-provided data, because the AtomicDoubleArray class (when serialized with Java serialization) and the CompoundOrdering class (when serialized with GWT serialization) perform eager allocation without appropriate checks on what a client has sent and whether the data size is reasonable.
24) Incorrect default permissions (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-2976)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect default permissions in com.google.common.io.FileBackedOutputStream. A local user with access to the system can view contents of files and directories or modify them.
25) Incorrect default permissions (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-8908)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect default permissions for files located in the temporary directory set by the Guava com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir(). A local user with access to the system can view contents of files and directories or modify them.
26) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-50379)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to missing access restrictions to the default servlet. If the default servlet is write enabled (readonly initialisation parameter set to the non-default value of false) for a case insensitive file system, concurrent read and upload under load of the same file can bypass Tomcat's case sensitivity checks and cause an uploaded file to be treated as a JSP leading to remote code execution.
27) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-34750)
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 when handling HTTP/2 stream. A remote attacker can initiate multiple HTTP/2 connections to the server that are remain open and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
28) Permissions, privileges, and access controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-56337)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The mitigation bypass depends on the version of Java used on the system.
29) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38286)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources during the TLS handshake process. A remote attacker can initiate multiple TLS connections, trigger memory exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
30) Missing authorization (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22235)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The
vulnerability exists due to an error in EndpointRequest.to()
implementation. The function creates a matcher for null/** if the
actuator endpoint, for which the EndpointRequest has been created, is
disabled or not exposed. A remote non-authenticated attacker can gain
unauthorized access to the application.
31) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14721)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to fail to block the axis2-jaxws class from polymorphic deserialization. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.