Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Commons affects IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics (CVE-2015-7450)

Summary

An Apache Commons Collections vulnerability for handling Java object deserialization was addressed by IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for Application Diagnostics

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-7450 DESCRIPTION: Apache Commons Collections could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the deserialization of data with Java InvokerTransformer class. By sending specially crafted data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary Java code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107918 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics 7.1 and above

Workarounds and Mitigations

The affected components are: ITCAM Agent for WebSphere Applications, ITCAM Agent for J2EE, ITCAM Agent for HTTP Servers, and the WebSphere component used in ITCAM for Application Diagnostics Managing Server.

1. The instructions to replace commons-collections-3.2.jar with commons-collections.3.2.2.jar for each agent are:

• ITCAM Agent for WebSphere Applications: <http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21972189&gt;
• ITCAM Agent for J2EE: <http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21972199&gt;
• ITCAM Agent for HTTP Servers: <http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21972210&gt;
• The WebSphere Security Bulletin can be found at: <http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21970575&gt;