Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Solution is affected by Apache Tomcat vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-0230, CVE-2014-7810,CVE-2014-0227)

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-0230, CVE-2014-7810,CVE-2014-0227) reported in Apache Tomcat v6 that is used by WebSphere Cast Iron Solution

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-0230
DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by missing limitations on request body size. By sending a specially crafted request to the server, an attacker could keep a connection open and force Tomcat to keep a processing thread allocated to the connection.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/102131 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2014-7810
DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the use of expression language. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the protections of a Security Manager.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/103155 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2014-0227
DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted request in a malformed chunked header to the Web server to cause multiple processing conflicts on the servers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100751 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

This vulnerability affects all versions of the product
WebSphere Cast Iron v 7.0,0,x,
WebSphere Cast Iron v 6.4.0.x
WebSphere Cast Iron v 6.3.0.x
WebSphere Cast Iron v 6.1.0.x
WebSphere Cast Iron v 6.0.0.x

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF| APAR| Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—|—
Cast Iron Appliance| 7.*| LI78610| iFix 7.0.0.2-CUMUIFIX-013
Cast Iron Appliance| 6.4.0.x| LI78610| iFix 6.4.0.1-CUMUIFIX-029
Cast Iron Appliance| 6.3.0.x| LI78610| iFix 6.3.0.2-CUMUIFIX-014
Cast Iron Appliance| 6.1.0.x| LI78610| iFix 6.1.0.15-CUMUIFIX-21

Workarounds and Mitigations

Customers on Cast Iron v6.0.0.x should contact IBM Support for migrating to one of the remediated releases as Cast Iron v6.0.0.x EOS was April 2015.