Resource exhaustion in xstream - CVE-2021-43859

 

Resource exhaustion in xstream - CVE-2021-43859

Published: February 11, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU60527
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43859
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

xstream
Red Hat Integration Camel Extensions for Quarkus
Atlas eDiscovery Process Management
Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management
Oracle Communications Diameter Intelligence Hub
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator
IBM Security Verify Governance
Jenkins
Jenkins LTS
Oracle Financial Services Revenue Management and Billing
Oracle WebCenter Portal
jenkins (Red Hat package)
atomic-openshift (Red Hat package)
openshift-ansible (Red Hat package)
atomic-openshift-cluster-autoscaler (Red Hat package)
golang-github-prometheus-alertmanager (Red Hat package)
atomic-openshift-service-idler (Red Hat package)
atomic-openshift-metrics-server (Red Hat package)
atomic-openshift-node-problem-detector (Red Hat package)
openshift-enterprise-autoheal (Red Hat package)
atomic-openshift-web-console (Red Hat package)
atomic-openshift-descheduler (Red Hat package)
openshift-enterprise-cluster-capacity (Red Hat package)
golang-github-openshift-oauth-proxy (Red Hat package)
golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter (Red Hat package)
atomic-enterprise-service-catalog (Red Hat package)
golang-github-prometheus-prometheus (Red Hat package)
atomic-openshift-dockerregistry (Red Hat package)
openshift-kuryr (Red Hat package)
jenkins-2-plugins (Red Hat package)
xstream-hibernate
xstream-benchmark
xstream-javadoc
xstream-parent
xstream
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
RecoverPoint Classic
Oracle FLEXCUBE Private Banking
Oracle Communications Policy Management
Oracle Retail Customer Insights
Storage Copy Data Management
IBM Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager
Engineering Test Management
IBM Qradar SIEM
Fedora
openEuler
Oracle Communications BRM - Elastic Charging Engine
Oracle WebCenter Sites
Oracle Business Activity Monitoring

How to mitigate CVE-2021-43859

Install updates from vendor's website.

xstream - update to 1.4.19
Jenkins - update to 2.334
Jenkins LTS - update to 2.319.3
jenkins (Red Hat package) - update to 2.319.3.1650348949-1.el7
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - update to 3.11.665
atomic-openshift (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.git.0.7faaeaa.el7
openshift-ansible (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.git.0.a9090ac.el7
atomic-openshift-cluster-autoscaler (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.g99b2acf.el7
golang-github-prometheus-alertmanager (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.g13de638.el7
atomic-openshift-service-idler (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.g39cfc66.el7
atomic-openshift-metrics-server (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.gf8bf728.el7
atomic-openshift-node-problem-detector (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.gc8f26da.el7
openshift-enterprise-autoheal (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.gf2f435d.el7
atomic-openshift-web-console (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.gd742e61.el7
atomic-openshift-descheduler (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.gd435537.el7
openshift-enterprise-cluster-capacity (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.g22be164.el7
golang-github-openshift-oauth-proxy (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.gedebe84.el7
golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.g609cd20.el7
atomic-enterprise-service-catalog (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.g2e6be86.el7
golang-github-prometheus-prometheus (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.g99aae51.el7
atomic-openshift-dockerregistry (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.g3571208.el7
openshift-kuryr (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.685-1.g0c4bf66.el7
jenkins-2-plugins (Red Hat package) - update to 3.11.1650371376-1.el7
RecoverPoint Classic - update to 5.1 SP4 P4
Atlas eDiscovery Process Management - update to 6.0.3.9.7
IBM Qradar SIEM - addressed in versions 7.3.3 Fix Pack 12, 7.4.3 Fix Pack 6, 7.5.0 Update Pack 2
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus - update to 10.1.11
Oracle Communications BRM - Elastic Charging Engine - update to 12.0.0.5.1
xstream-hibernate - update to 1.4.18-2
xstream-benchmark - update to 1.4.18-2
xstream-javadoc - update to 1.4.18-2
xstream-parent - update to 1.4.18-2
xstream - update to 1.4.18-2
xstream - addressed in versions 1.4.19-1.fc34, 1.4.19-1.fc35, 1.4.20-1.el8
Storage Copy Data Management - update to 2.2.26.0
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - addressed in versions 4.8.8, 5.1.0
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator - addressed in versions 6.0.3.7, 6.1.0.5, 6.1.1.2, 6.1.2.0
IBM Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager - update to 6.4.2.17
Engineering Test Management - addressed in versions 7.0.1.0.21, 7.0.2.0.22
IBM Security Verify Governance - update to 10.0.1.0.2

External References

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