Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities affect IBM System Networking Switch Center (CVE-2015-7817, CVE-2015-7818, CVE-2015-7819, CVE-2015-7820)

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM System Networking Switch Center.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM System Networking Switch Center.

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7817

Description: IBM System Networking Switch Center could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request to the FileReader.jsp script containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to view arbitrary files on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/105719&gt; for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7818

Description: IBM System Networking Switch Center could allow a local unprivileged user to upload a malicious jsp file that would be executed with SYSTEM privileges.

CVSS Base Score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/105717&gt; for current score
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)

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7819

Description: IBM System Networking Switch Center could allow a remote attacker to obtain the encrypted credentials of the administrator.

CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/105718&gt; for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7820

Description: IBM System Networking Switch Center could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to read any file on the system by sending a specially crafted request to the ZipDownload.jsp script.

CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/105720&gt; for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected products and versions

IBM System Networking Switch Center 7.3.1.4.

Remediation/Fixes

It is recommended to upgrade IBM System Networking Switch Center to version 7.3.1.5. The install packages for this release can be found on IBM’s Passport Advantage website:

<http://www-01.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/&gt;

IBM recommends upgrading System Networking Switch Center versions 7.1 and 7.2 to 7.3.1.5.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.

References

• Complete CVSS V3 Guide
• On-line Calculator V3

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

Acknowledgement

These vulnerabilities were discovered by Andrea Micalizzi (rgod) working with HP’s Zero Day Initiative.

Change History
23 October 2015: Original Copy Published

• The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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