Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in The Bouncy Castle Crypto Package For Java affect IBM Application Performance Management products

Summary

The Bouncy Castle Crypto Package For Java is used by IBM Application Performance Management. The vulnerabilities below have been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-33201
**DESCRIPTION:**The Bouncy Castle Crypto Package For Java (bc-java) could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by not validating the X.500 name of any certificate in the implementation of the X509LDAPCertStoreSpi.java class. By using blind LDAP injection attack techniques, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258653 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2016-1000346
**DESCRIPTION:**Bouncy Castle JCE Provider could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the other party DH public key. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to reveal details via invalid keys.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151807 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2019-17359
**DESCRIPTION:**Bouncy Castle Crypto is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by OutOfMemoryError error in ASN.1 parser. By sending specially crafted ASN.1 data, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/168581 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2016-1000345
**DESCRIPTION:**Bouncy Castle JCE Provider could provide weaker than expected security, caused by an environment where timings can be easily observed. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct a padding oracle attack.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151808 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2016-1000340
**DESCRIPTION:**Bouncy Castle JCE Provider could provide weaker than expected security, caused by a carry propagation bug in the implementation of squaring for several raw math classes. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attack.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151813 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2020-26939
**DESCRIPTION:**Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC and Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC-FJA could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by observable differences in behavior to rrror inputs in org.bouncycastle.crypto.encodings.OAEPEncoding. By using the OAEP Decoder to send invalid ciphertext that decrypts to a short payload, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/191108 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2016-1000341
**DESCRIPTION:**Bouncy Castle JCE Provider could provide weaker than expected security, caused by a flaw in the DSA signature generation. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch timing attacks.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151812 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2016-1000342
**DESCRIPTION:**Bouncy Castle JCE Provider could provide weaker than expected security, caused by improper validation of ASN.1 encoding of signature in the ECDSA. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151811 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2016-1000338
**DESCRIPTION:**Bouncy Castle JCE Provider could provide weaker than expected security, caused by improper validation of ASN.1 encoding of signature in the DSA. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151815 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2016-1000344
**DESCRIPTION:**Bouncy Castle JCE Provider could provide weaker than expected security, caused by a flaw in the DHIES implementation. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151809 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2016-1000352
**DESCRIPTION:**Bouncy Castle JCE Provider could provide weaker than expected security, caused by a flaw in the ECIES implementation. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151806 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2015-6644
**DESCRIPTION:**Google Android could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in Bouncy Castle. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain user’s private information.
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109449 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2016-1000339
**DESCRIPTION:**Bouncy Castle JCE Provider could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the AESEngine. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151814 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2016-1000343
**DESCRIPTION:**Bouncy Castle JCE Provider could provide weaker than expected security, caused by a flaw in the DSA key pair generator. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151810 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2020-15522
**DESCRIPTION:**Bouncy Castle BC Java, BC C# .NET, BC-FJA, BC-FNA could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a timing issue within the EC math library. By utilize cryptographic attack techniques, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain the private key information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/202188 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2018-1000613
**DESCRIPTION:**Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography APIs could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe reflection flaw in XMSS/XMSS^MT private key deserialization. By using specially-crafted private key, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148041 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Base Private

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Advanced Private| 8.1.4|

The vulnerability can be remediated by applying the following 8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SERVER-IF0014 or later server patch to the system where the Cloud APM server is installed: <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7028410&gt;

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Workarounds and Mitigations

None