XML External Entity injection in TIBCO products - CVE-2021-35496

 

XML External Entity injection in TIBCO products - CVE-2021-35496

Published: October 13, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU57327
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-35496
CWE-ID: CWE-611
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input in the XMLA Connections component. A remote authenticated attacker can gain unauthorized read access, as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to a subset of the affected systems data and cause a denial of servie (DoS) condition.


Affected software

TIBCO JasperReports Server
TIBCO JasperReports Server - Community Edition
TIBCO JasperReports Server for Microsoft Azure
TIBCO JasperReports Server - Developer Edition
TIBCO JasperReports Server for AWS Marketplace
TIBCO JasperReports Server for ActiveMatrix BPM

How to mitigate CVE-2021-35496

Install updates from vendor's website.

TIBCO JasperReports Server - addressed in versions 7.2.2, 7.5.2, 7.8.1, 7.9.1
TIBCO JasperReports Server - Community Edition - update to 7.8.1
TIBCO JasperReports Server for Microsoft Azure - update to 7.9.1
TIBCO JasperReports Server - Developer Edition - update to 7.9.1
TIBCO JasperReports Server for AWS Marketplace - update to 7.9.1
TIBCO JasperReports Server for ActiveMatrix BPM - update to 7.9.1

External References

Related Security Bulletins