Security Bulletin: Rational Synergy vulnerability (CVE-2014-0453, CVE-2014-0411)

Summary

A possible security vulnerability has been reported in the Rational Synergy. There have been no reported exploits of this possible vulnerability, which is located in the JSSE component of IBM Java shipped with the tool and its agent.

Vulnerability Details

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CVEID:****CVE-2014-0453

**Description:**An unspecified vulnerability related to the Security component has partial confidentiality impact, partial integrity impact, and no availability impact.

CVSS Base Score: 4 **CVSS Temporal Score:**See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92490&gt; for the current score *CVSS Environmental Score:**Undefined CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVEID:****CVE-2014-0411

**Description:**Timing differences based on validity of TLS messages can be exploited to decrypt the entire session. The exploit is not trivial, requiring a man-in-the-middle position and a long time (around 20 hours). The likelihood of occurrence of this issue in Rational Synergy is low.

CVSS Base Score: 4 **CVSS Temporal Score: **See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90357&gt; for the current score *CVSS Environmental Score:**Undefined CVSS Vector: (AV/N:AC/H:Au/N:C/P:I/P:A/N)

Affected Products and Versions

This vulnerability impacts the following Rational Synergy releases:

• Rational Synergy release 7.2.1.2 or earlier.
• Rational Synergy release 7.2.0.6 or earlier.
• Rational Synergy release 7.1.0.7.003 or earlier.

Remediation/Fixes

Replace the JRE used in Rational Synergy:

Steps to download and replace JRE in Rational Synergy 7.1.0.7.003, 7.2.0.6 and 7.2.1.2:

1. Open the list of Synergy downloads on Fix Central
2. Select the SDK and Readme for Rational Synergy which applied to your release as follows:

Note: The fix will use the following naming convention: <V.R.M.F>-Rational-RATISYNE-JavaSE-SDK-6.0.16.0-**<platform>****

Where<V.R.M.F>**** = release**& **<platform> = operating system **

• Rational Synergy 7.2.1 (uses 7.2.1.2 release designation)

Example: 7.2.1.2-Rational-RATISYNE-JavaSE-SDK-6.0.16.0-Linux

• Rational Synergy 7.2.0 (uses 7.2.0.6 release designation)

Example: 7.2.0.6-Rational-RATISYNE-JavaSE-SDK-6.0.16.0-Windows

• Rational Synergy 7.1 (uses 7.1.0.7 release designation)

Example: 7.1.0.7-Rational-RATISYNE-JavaSE-SDK-6.0.16.0-AIX

• Follow the steps in the Install instructions to replace the JRE.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None