Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Diffie-Hellman ciphers affects IBM eDiscovery Analyzer (CVE-2015-4000)

Summary

The Logjam Attack on TLS connections using the Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange protocol affects IBM eDiscovery Analyzer.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-4000**
DESCRIPTION:** The TLS protocol could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to properly convey a DHE_EXPORT ciphersuite choice. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to force a downgrade to 512-bit export-grade cipher. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to recover the session key as well as modify the contents of the traffic. This vulnerability is commonly referred to as “Logjam”.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/103294 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM eDiscovery Analyzer Version 2.2

IBM eDiscovery Analyzer Version 2.2.1

IBM eDiscovery Analyzer Version 2.2.2

Remediation/Fixes

None

Workarounds and Mitigations

The Logjam attack, which affects TLS connections using the Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange protocol, may affect IBM eDiscovery Analyzer. In order to protect the installation from this vulnerability, DE/DHE ciphers should be disabled. This can be accomplished by ensuring that all of the following strings are specified as item elements in the array under the ExcludeCipherSuites element of Jetty.xml:

TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256
TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256

You should verify applying this configuration change does not cause any compatibility issues. Not disabling the DH or DHE stream ciphers will expose yourself to the Logjam attack described above. IBM recommends that you review your entire environment to identify other areas where you have enabled the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol used in TLS and take appropriate mitigation and remediation actions.