Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Commons affects IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for J2EE (CVE-2015-7450)

Summary

An Apache Commons Collections vulnerability for handling Java object deserialization was addressed by IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for J2EE.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-7450 DESCRIPTION: Apache Commons Collections could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the deserialization of data with Java InvokerTransformer class. By sending specially crafted data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary Java code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107918 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
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

IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for J2EE: 7.1.1

Workarounds and Mitigations

The affected Apache commons-collections-3.2.jar is in the IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for J2EE image. The instruction of replacing commons-collections-3.2.jar with commons-collections-3.2.2.jar can be found at <http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21972199&gt;