2021-20422 | IBM Cloud Pak for Applications Memory information disclosure (XFDB-196304)

By Max On Jul 18, 2021

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in IBM Cloud Pak for Applications 4.3 (Cloud Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Memory Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

IBM Cloud Pak for Applications 4.3 could disclose sensitive information to a malicious attacker by accessing data stored in memory. IBM X-Force ID: 196304.

The weakness was released 07/14/2021. The advisory is shared for download at ibm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2021-20422 since 12/17/2020. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 07/18/2021). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (196304).

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