Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for VMware (CVE-2018-1656, CVE-2018-12539)

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ that is used by IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot (formerly Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager) for VMware. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in July 2018.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1656 DESCRIPTION: The IBM Java Runtime Environment’'s Diagnostic Tooling Framework for Java (DTFJ) does not protect against path traversal attacks when extracting compressed dump files.
CVSS Base Score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/144882&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-12539 DESCRIPTION: Eclipse OpenJ9 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by the failure to restrict the use of Java Attach API to connect to an Eclipse OpenJ9 or IBM JVM on the same machine and use Attach API operations to only the process owner. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute untrusted native code and gain elevated privileges on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148389&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

The following levels of IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot (formerly Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager) for VMware are affected:

• 4.1.0.0 through 4.1.6.5

Remediation/Fixes

Workarounds and Mitigations

None