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IBM WebSphere Application Server: CVE-2023-0482: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to a privilege escalation due to RESTEasy (CVE-2023-0482)

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IBM WebSphere Application Server: CVE-2023-0482: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to a privilege escalation due to RESTEasy (CVE-2023-0482)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/17/2023
Created
05/12/2023
Added
05/12/2023
Modified
05/12/2023

Description

In RESTEasy the insecure File.createTempFile() is used in the DataSourceProvider, FileProvider and Mime4JWorkaround classes which creates temp files with insecure permissions that could be read by a local user.

Solution(s)

  • ibm-was-install-8-5-ph53883-liberty
  • ibm-was-upgrade-8-5-23-0-0-4-liberty

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