Security Bulletin: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat affect IBM Rational License Key Server Administration and Reporting Tool

Summary

Apache Tomcat is shipped as a component of RLKS Administration and Reporting Tool (RLKS ART) which contains multiple security vulnerabilities that could potentially impact ART.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-5647**
DESCRIPTION:** Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the processing of pipelined requests in send file. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information from the wrong response.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124400 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2017-5648**
DESCRIPTION:** Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to use the appropriate facade object by certain application listener calls. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access and modify data on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124399 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2017-5651**
DESCRIPTION:** Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the send file processing that adds the invoked Processor to the cache twice. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information from the wrong response.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124397 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2017-12615**
DESCRIPTION:** Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an error when running on Windows with HTTP PUTs enabled. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to upload a JSP file and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/132277 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2017-12617**
DESCRIPTION:** Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an incomplete fix related to an error when running on Windows with HTTP PUTs enabled. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to upload a JSP file and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/132484 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

These vulnerabilities affect the following versions of the IBM RLKS Administration and Reporting Tool.

• RLKS Administration and Reporting Tool version 8.1.4
• RLKS Administration and Reporting Tool version 8.1.4.1
• RLKS Administration and Reporting Tool version 8.1.4.2
• RLKS Administration and Reporting Tool version 8.1.4.3
• RLKS Administration and Reporting Tool version 8.1.4.4
• RLKS Administration and Reporting Tool version 8.1.4.5
• RLKS Administration and Reporting Tool version 8.1.4.6
• RLKS Administration and Reporting Tool version 8.1.4.7
• RLKS Administration and Reporting Tool version 8.1.4.8
• RLKS Administration and Reporting Tool version 8.1.4.9

Remediation/Fixes

Follow the instructions in How to manually update Apache Tomcat? to upgrade to Apache Tomcat, version 7.0.82 or later, where these vulnerabilities have been fixed.