Security Bulletin: Apache Tomcat vulnerability affects IBM SONAS (CVE-2014-0230)

Summary

Apache Tomcat denial of service vulnerability

Vulnerability Details

This bulletin relates to vulnerabilities in the Apache Tomcat component which is used to provide the product’s management GUI. The CLI interface is unaffected.

CVEID: CVE-2014-0230

DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending a specially crafted request to the server, an attacker could keep a connection open and force Tomcat to keep a processing thread allocated to the connection. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/102131&gt; for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM SONAS
The product is affected when running a code releases 1.3.0.0 to 1.5.2.0

Remediation/Fixes

A fix for these issues is in version 1.5.2.1 of IBM SONAS. Customers running an affected version of SONAS should upgrade to 1.5.2.1 or a later version, so that the fix gets applied.

Please contact IBM support for assistance in upgrading your system.

Workarounds and Mitigations

Workaround(s): None

Mitigation(s): Ensure that all users who have access to the system are authenticated by another security system such as a firewall.