Security Bulletin: Financial Transaction Manager for ACH Services and Corporate Payment Services has a potential XML External Entity vulnerability (CVE-2017-1758)

Summary

Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for ACH Services and FTM for Corporate Payment Services (CPS) has addressed a potential XML External Entity vulnerability. For some web services, if the request is intercepted and modified, the XML payload could take advantage of XML External Entity Injection to cause denial of service.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-1758**
DESCRIPTION:** IBM Financial Transaction Manager for ACH Services for Multi-Platform is vulnerable to a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or consume memory resources.
CVSS Base Score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/135859&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

- FTM for ACH Services v3.0.2, v3.0.3, v3.0.4, v3.1.0

- FTM for CPS v3.0.2

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF| APAR| Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—|—
FTM for ACH Services| 3.0.2
3.0.3
3.0.4.0
3.1.0| PI92266| 3.0.2 apply 3.0.2.1-FTM-ACH-MP-iFix0009 or later.
3.0.3 apply 3.0.3.0-FTM-ACH-MP-iFix0005 or later.
3.0.4 apply 3.0.4.1-FTM-ACH-MP-iFix0001 or later.
3.1.0 apply 3.1.0-FTM-ACH-MP-fp0001 or later.
FTM for CPS| 3.0.2| PI92266| 3.0.2 apply 3.0.2.1-FTM-CPS-MP-iFix0009 or later.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None