IBM Security Bulletin CVE-2021-23450

IBM Corp. had published a security bulletin concerning IBM Spectrum Protect for Virutal Environments.

Summary
IBM Spectrum Protect for Virutal Environments may be affected by a vulnerability in IBM Dojo (CVE-2021-23450) which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system.

Vulnerability details
CVEID: CVE-2021-23450
DESCRIPTION: Dojo could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a prototype pollution in the setObject function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.

CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216463 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected products and versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware	8.1.0.0-8.1.13.3
IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Hyper-V	8.1.0.0-8.1.13.3

Remediation/Fixes

*IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware Affected Versions*	Fixing Level	*Platform*	*Link to Fix and Instructions*
8.1.0.0-8.1.13.3	8.1.14	Linux Windows	https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6552530

*IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Hyper-V Affected Versions*	Fixing Level	*Platform*	*Link to Fix and Instructions*
8.1.0.0-8.1.13.3	8.1.14	Windows	https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6552530

Workarounds and mitigations
None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History
14 March 2022: Initial Publication

* The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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