Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in DB2 that affect the IBM Performance Management product

Summary

DB2 contains several vulnerabilities which can affect the IBM Performance Management product. Some of the information about security vulnerabilities affecting DB2 has been published in security bulletins.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1857 DESCRIPTION: IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes DB2 Connect Server) could allow a user to bypass FGAC control and gain access to data they shouldn’t be able to see.
CVSS Base Score: 4.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151155&gt;

for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-1799 DESCRIPTION: IBM DB2 could allow a local unprivileged user to overwrite files on the system which could cause damage to the database.
CVSS Base Score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149429&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:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-1780 DESCRIPTION: IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes DB2 Connect Server) could allow a local db2 instance owner to obtain root access by exploiting a symbolic link attack to read/write/corrupt a file that they originally did not have permission to access.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148803&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2018-1781 DESCRIPTION: IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes DB2 Connect Server) could allow a local user to obtain root access by exploiting a symbolic link attack to read/write/corrupt a file that they originally did not have permission to access.
CVSS Base Score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148804&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)

CVEID: CVE-2018-1834 DESCRIPTION: IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes DB2 Connect Server) contains a vulnerability that could allow a local user to escalate their privileges to root through a symbolic link attack.
CVSS Base Score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/150511&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2018-1802 DESCRIPTION: IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes DB2 Connect Server) binaries load shared libraries from an untrusted path potentially giving low privilege user full access to the DB2 instance account by loading a malicious shared library.
CVSS Base Score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149640&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)

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-2018-2973 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Java SE, Java SE Embedded JSSE component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, high integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/146835&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/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)

Details of these vulnerabilities can be found in the following security bulletins:

Security Bulletin: IBM Db2’s RCAC rules are not being enforced by CTAS sub-select statements (CVE-2018-1857)
Security Bulletin: IBM Db2 is affected by multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-1799, CVE-2018-1780, CVE-2018-1781, CVE-2018-1834)
Security Bulletin: IBM Db2 is vulnerable to privilege escalation via loading libraries from an untrusted path (CVE-2018-1802)
Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Db2

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Base Private 8.1.4
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Advanced Private 8.1.4

IBM Monitoring , 8.1.3

IBM Application Diagnostics, 8.1.3

IBM Application Performance Management, 8.1.3

IBM Application Performance Management Advanced, 8.1.3

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management Base Private

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management Advanced Private

| 8.1.4 |

The vulnerabilities can be remediated by first applying the necessary fixes to your DB2 V10.5, or V11.1 server. The fixes can be accessed from the following security bulletins:
Security Bulletin: IBM Db2’s RCAC rules are not being enforced by CTAS sub-select statements (CVE-2018-1857)
Security Bulletin: IBM Db2 is affected by multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-1799, CVE-2018-1780, CVE-2018-1781, CVE-2018-1834)
Security Bulletin: IBM Db2 is vulnerable to privilege escalation via loading libraries from an untrusted path (CVE-2018-1802)
Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Db2

To use your updated DB2 V10.5, or V11.1 server with your IBM Cloud Application Performance Management product, apply the 8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SERVER-IF0004 or later server patch to the system where the Cloud APM server is installed. Interim fixes for the Cloud APM server version 8.1.4 are available to download from IBM Fix Central at this link:
https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=IBM%20Performance%20Management%20family&product=ibm/Tivoli/IBM+Application+Performance+Management+Advanced&release=8.1.4.0&platform=All&function=all

IBM Monitoring

IBM Application Diagnostics

IBM Application Performance Management

IBM Application Performance Management Advanced

| 8.1.3 | The vulnerabilities can be remediated by first applying the necessary fixes to your DB2 V10.5 server. The fixes can be accessed from the following security bulletins:
Security Bulletin: IBM Db2 is affected by multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-1799, CVE-2018-1780, CVE-2018-1781, CVE-2018-1834)
Security Bulletin: IBM Db2 is vulnerable to privilege escalation via loading libraries from an untrusted path (CVE-2018-1802)
Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Db2

To use your updated DB2 V10.5 server with your IBM Cloud Application Performance Management product, apply the 8.1.3.0-IBM-IPM-SERVER-IF0011 or later server patch to the system where the APM server is installed. Interim fixes for the APM server version 8.1.3 are available to download from IBM Fix Central at this link: https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=IBM%20Performance%20Management%20family&product=ibm/Tivoli/IBM+Application+Performance+Management+Advanced&release=8.1.3.0&platform=All&function=all

Workarounds and Mitigations

None