Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Technology Edition affects IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server (CVE-2015-0138)

Summary

The “FREAK: Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT keys" TLS/SSL client and server vulnerability affects IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Technology Edition, Versions 6 and 7 that is used by IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-0138

DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability in various IBM SSL/TLS implementations could allow a remote attacker to downgrade the security of certain SSL/TLS connections. An IBM SSL/TLS client implementation could accept the use of an RSA temporary key in a non-export RSA key exchange 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

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 10.2.2
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 10.2.1.1
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 10.2.1
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 10.2
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 10.1.1
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 10.1
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 8.4.1

Remediation/Fixes

The recommended solution is to apply the fix for versions listed as soon as practical.

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 8.4.1 Fixes

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1.x Fixes

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2, 10.2.1x and 10.2.2 Fixes

Workarounds and Mitigations

None