Security Bulletin: IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) is affected by the following OpenSSL vulnerability: CVE-2014-0224

Summary

An interface on the IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM) may expose user account names and passwords that have been configured on that AMM.

Vulnerability Details

Abstract

Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL that were reported on June 5, 2014 by the OpenSSL Project.

Content

Vulnerability Details:

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0224

Description: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by the use of weak keying material in SSL/TLS clients and servers. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted handshake to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to decrypt and modify traffic.

CVSS Base Score: 5.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/93586&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

Affected products and versions

Affected Products

• Flex System Chassis Management Module, Option part number 68Y7029
• Flex System Enterprise Chassis, Types 7893, 8721, 8724

Affected Firmware versions

v2.0.0K, as well as all v1.x versions. This includes all the following:

• 2PET10A2
• 2PEO10A2
• 2PET10B
• 2PEO10B
• 2PET10G
• 2PEO10G
• 2PET10K
• 2PEO10K
• 2PET10M
• 2PEO10M
• 2PET10P
• 2PEO10P
• 2PET10Q
• 2PEO10Q
• 2PET12D
• 2PEO12D
• 2PET12F
• 2PEO12F
• 2PET12G
• 2PEO12G
• 2PET12H
• 2PET12I
• 2PEO12I
• 2PET12K
• 2PEO12K

Remediation:

IBM recommends updating to Chassis Management Module 2.0.0N (2PET12N) or newer, available on IBM Fix Central.

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None known

References:

• Complete CVSS Guide
• On-line Calculator V2
• OpenSSL Project vulnerability website

Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement
None

Change History
18 June 2014: Original Version Published

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