Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java shipped with IBM Transformation Extender Advanced (CVE-2018-1656, CVE-2018-12539)

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java shipped with IBM Transformation Extender Advanced. These vulnerabilities have been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2018-1656
**DESCRIPTION:**The IBM Java Runtime Environment’s Diagnostic Tooling Framework for Java (DTFJ) (IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition 6.0 , 7.0, and 8.0) does not protect against path traversal attacks when extracting compressed dump files. IBM X-Force ID: 144882.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/144882 for the current score.
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:**In Eclipse OpenJ9 version 0.8, users other than the process owner may be able to use Java Attach API to connect to an Eclipse OpenJ9 or IBM JVM on the same machine and use Attach API operations, which includes the ability to execute untrusted native code. Attach API is enabled by default on Windows, Linux and AIX JVMs and can be disabled using the command line option -Dcom.ibm.tools.attach.enable=no.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148389 for the current score.
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

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to ITXA version 9.0.1.0 or higher from Passport Advantage.

Workarounds and Mitigations

Customer may manually upgrade their ITXA installation to the latest version of IBM Java.