Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities affect Liberty for Java for IBM Cloud

Summary

There is a potential bypass security vulnerability in the expression language library used by WebSphere Application Server (CVE-2014-7810).

Vulnerability Details

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&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

This vulnerability affects all versions of Liberty for Java in IBM Cloud up to and including v3.25.

Remediation/Fixes

To upgrade to Liberty for Java v3.26-20181023-1545 or higher, you must re-stage or re-push your application.

To find the current version of Liberty for Java in IBM Cloud being used, from the command-line Cloud Foundry client by running the following commands:

cf ssh <appname> -c cat “staging_info.yml”

Look for the following lines:

{“detected_buildpack”:“Liberty for Java™ (WAR, liberty-18.0.0_3, buildpack-v3.25-20180918-1034, ibmjdk-1.8.0_20180214, env)”,“start_command”:“.liberty/initial_startup.rb”}

To re-stage your application using the command-line Cloud Foundry client, use the following command:

cf restage <appname>

To re-push your application using the command-line Cloud Foundry client, use the following command:

cf push <appname>

Workarounds and Mitigations

none

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

25 October 2018: original document published

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

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