Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in IBM SDK for Node.js affect IBM Business Process Manager Configuration Editor (CVE-2015-8027, CVE-2015-3194, CVE-2015-3195, CVE-2015-3196)

Summary

Security vulnerabilities have been reported for IBM SDK for Node.js. IBM Business Process Manager includes a stand-alone tool for editing configuration properties files that is based IBM SDK for Node.js.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-8027**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability in Node.js could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108360&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2015-3194**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference when verifying certificates via a malformed routine. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using signature verification routines with an absent PSS parameter to cause any certificate verification operation to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108503&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2015-3195**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a memory leak in a malformed X509_ATTRIBUTE structure. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain CMS data and other sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108504&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-3196**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a race condition when PSK identity hints are received by a multi-threaded client and the SSL_CTX structure is updated with the incorrect value. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to possibly corrupt memory and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108505&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

• IBM Business Process Manager all editions V8.5.5 and V8.5.6

Remediation/Fixes

Install the interim fix for APAR JR54939 as appropriate for your current IBM Business Process Manager environment.

• IBM Business Process Manager Express
• IBM Business Process Manager Standard
• IBM Business Process Manager Advanced

Please note that the fixes for 8.5.6.0 can be included in a future cumulative fix. See Fix list for the IBM Business Process Manager Version 8.5 products

Workarounds and Mitigations

IBM BPM Configuration Editor is a stand-alone tool for editing properties file. Use a standard text file editor instead.