Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ affect Business Process Manager, and bundled products shipped with IBM Cloud Orchestrator

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, that is used by IBM Cloud Orchestrator, and bundled products shipped with IBM Cloud Orchestrator and IBM Cloud Orchestrator Enterprise Edition. IBM SmartCloud Cost Management and Tivoli Monitoring are shipped as bundled supporting products with IBM Cloud Orchestrator Enterprise Edition.

These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2016 and includes the vulnerability commonly referred to as “SLOTH”.

Vulnerability Details

IBM Business Process Manager Standard, IBM Tivoli System Automation Application Manager, and IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms are shipped as bundled supporting products with IBM Cloud Orchestrator.

CVEID: CVE-2016-0475**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Libraries component has partial confidentiality impact, partial integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 5.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109946 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2016-0466**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the JAXP component could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109948 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2015-7575**
DESCRIPTION:** The TLS protocol could allow weaker than expected security caused by a collision attack when using the MD5 hash function for signing a ServerKeyExchange message during a TLS handshake. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to impersonate a TLS server and obtain credentials. This vulnerability is commonly referred to as “SLOTH”.
CVSS Base Score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109415 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/UI:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2016-0448**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the JMX component could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109949 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Principal Product and Version

| ** Affected Supporting Product and Version**
—|—
IBM Cloud Orchestrator V2.5, V2.5.0.1| IBM Business Process Manager Standard 8.5.6
IBM Tivoli System Automation Application Manager 4.1
IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multi platforms 4.1
IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition 10.5.0.6
IBM Cloud Orchestrator V2.4, V2.4.0.1, V2.4.0.2, V2.4.0.3| IBM Business Process Manager Standard 8.5.6
IBM Tivoli System Automation Application Manager 4.1
IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multi platforms 4.1
IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition 10.5.0.6
IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator V2.3 and V2.3.0.1 from
Interim Fix1 through Interim Fix 9| IBM Business Process Manager Standard 8.5
IBM Tivoli System Automation Application Manager 3.2.2.2
IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multi platforms 3.2.2
IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition 10.1.0.5
IBM Cloud Orchestrator Enterprise versions:

Remediation/Fixes

For IBM Cloud Orchestrator principal product version and supporting products, consult the security bulletins in the table below for vulnerability details and information about fixes. Apply fixes as appropriate depending on your environment.

For affected supporting products that are shipped with IBM Cloud Orchestrator Enterprise, consult the following security bulletins for vulnerability details and apply the fixes as appropriate depending on your environment.

Workarounds and Mitigations

For CVE-2015-7575:

Users of Java 7 and later can address the issue by updating the /jre/lib/security/java.security file as follows (both steps are required):

· Add MD5 to the jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms property - e.g. jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms=MD2, RSA keySize < 1024, MD5

· Add MD5withRSA to the jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms property - e.g. jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=SSLv3, RC4, DH keySize < 768, MD5withRSA

Java 6 requires code changes in the JSSE component in addition to the java.security file modifications, so upgrading the JDK is the only solution.