Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM Java Runtime affect Rational Policy Tester (CVE-2015-7575)

Summary

There is a vulnerability in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Technology Edition, Version 8.0 that is used by Rational Policy Tester. This vulnerability, commonly referred to as “SLOTH”, was disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2016.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-7575
DESCRIPTION: The TLS protocol could allow weaker than expected security caused by a collision attack when using the MD5 hash function for signing a ServerKeyExchange message during a TLS handshake. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to impersonate a TLS server and obtain credentials.
CVSS Base Score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109415&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/UI:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Rational Policy Tester 8.5.x

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF| Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—
Rational Policy Tester| 8.5.x| PolicyTester-8.5.0.5-IFix-009-Windows

Workarounds and Mitigations

None