Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK affect IBM Tivoli System Automation Application Manager (CVE-2018-1656, CVE-2018-12539)

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 7 used by IBM Tivoli System Automation Application Manager. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in July 2018.

Vulnerability Details

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 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-2018-12539
**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 for more information
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)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Tivoli System Automation Application Manager 4.1.0.0 – 4.1.0.1

Remediation/Fixes

The recommended solution is to apply the corresponding fix to IBM Tivoli System Automation Application Manager. To select the fix you need to apply in your environment, click on ‘Download link’ in the table below.

• If you are running IBM Tivoli System Automation Application Manager 4.1, please apply interim fix “4.1.0.1-TIV-SAAMR-<OS>-IF0009” where <OS> represents the operating system for which you want to install the interim fix of this product version. You can apply this interim fix on top of any fixpack of version 4.1.

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VRMF

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APAR

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IBM Tivoli System Automation Application Manager

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4.1

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Workarounds and Mitigations

None.