Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM Java SDK Runtime affects DS8000 (CVE-2015-0138)

Summary

The “FREAK: Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT keys" TLS/SSL client and server vulnerability affects some versions of DS8000.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-0138

DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability in SSL/TLS implementations could allow a remote attacker to downgrade the security of certain SSL/TLS connections. A client implementation could accept the use of an RSA temporary key in a non-export RSA key uexchange ciphersuite. This could allow a remote attacker using man-in-the-middle techniques to facilitate brute-force decryption of TLS/SSL traffic between vulnerable clients and servers.

This vulnerability is also known as the FREAK attack.

CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100691 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

DS8870 prior to R7.2

DS8800/DS8700 prior to SP9 ( 86.31.142.0 / 76.31.121.0 respectively) which have not applied ISO CD patch named RemoveWeakCertificatesv1.0 or RemoveWeakCertificatesV1.1

DS8100/DS8300 even if they have applied the above patch.

Remediation/Fixes

As noted DS8870 at R7.2 and above ( 87.21.5.0 or above) and above and DS8800/DS8700 at SP9 ( 86.31.142.0 / 76.31.121.0 or above) are not impacted.

DS8700/DS8800/DS8870 customers should upgrade to a version which is not impacted or apply the patch noted below.

DS8100/DS8300 customers should apply the patch noted below.

Patch Release