Security Bulletin: IBM MQ is vulnerable to an issue in Eclipse (CVE-2020-27225)

Summary

An issue was identified in Eclipse that IBM MQ uses within IBM MQ Explorer.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-27225
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by the failure to authenticate active help requests to the local help web server. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to issue active help commands to the associated Eclipse Platform process or Eclipse Rich Client Platform process.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/198134 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

This issue was resolved under the following APARs: IT36319 (IBM MQ Explorer 9.2 LTS and CD), IT36383 (IBM MQ Explorer 9.1) and IT36791 (IBM MQ Explorer 9.0).

IBM MQ 9.2 LTS

Apply FixPack 9.2.0.2

IBM MQ 9.2 CD

Upgrade to IBM MQ 9.2.3 CD

IBM MQ 9.1 LTS

Apply Fixpack 9.1.0.8

IBM MQ 9.0 LTS

Apply FixPack 9.0.0.12

Workarounds and Mitigations

None