Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Java™ SDK and IBM® Java™ Runtime affect IBM® Intelligent Operations Center products

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Versions 6, 7, and 8, and IBM® Runtime Environment Java™, Versions 6, 7, and 8 that are used by IBM® Intelligent Operations Center, IBM® Intelligent Operations Center for Emergency Management, and IBM® Water Operations for Waternamics. IBM® Intelligent Operations Center has addressed the applicable CVEs.
These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in October 2018.

Vulnerability Details

If you run your own Java™ code using the IBM® Java™ Runtime that is delivered with this product, you should evaluate your code to determine whether additional Java™ vulnerabilities are applicable to your code. For a complete list of vulnerabilities, refer to the “IBM Java SDK Security Bulletin” located in the References section for more information.

CVE IDs: CVE-2018-3183 CVE-2018-3169 CVE-2018-3149 CVE-2018-3180 CVE-2018-3214 CVE-2018-13785 CVE-2018-3136 CVE-2018-3139

CVEID: CVE-2018-3183 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Scripting component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151500&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2018-3169 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE VM component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151486&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2018-3149 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE JNDI component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151465&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2018-3180 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE JSSE component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause low confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and low availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151497&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:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2018-3214 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Sound component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151530&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-2018-13785 DESCRIPTION: libpng is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a wrong calculation of row_factor in the png_check_chunk_length function in pngrutil.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base Score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/146015&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2018-3136 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Security component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 3.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151452&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-3139 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Networking component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information resulting in a low confidentiality impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 3.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151455&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Principal Product and Versions

| Affected Supporting Products and Versions
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IBM® Intelligent Operations Center V1.6.0 - V5.1.0.14 |

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 6 Service Refresh 16 Fix Pack 55 and earlier releases

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 6R1 Service Refresh 8 Fix Pack 55 and earlier releases

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 7 Service Refresh 10 Fix Pack 15 and earlier releases

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 7R1 Service Refresh 4 Fix Pack 15 and earlier releases

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 8 Service Refresh 5 Fix Pack 7 and earlier releases

IBM® Intelligent Operations Center for Emergency Management V1.6 - V5.1.0.6
IBM® Water Operations for Waternamics V5.1 - V5.2.1.1

Remediation/Fixes

The fix for this issue is available in IBM® Intelligent Operations Center version 5.2 on Passport Advantage.

Workarounds and Mitigations

Until you apply the fixes, it may be possible to reduce the risk of successful attacks by restricting network protocols required by an attack. For attacks that require certain privileges or access to certain packages, removing the privileges or the ability to access the packages from unprivileged users may help reduce the risk of successful attack. Both approaches may break application functionality, so IBM strongly recommends that customers test changes on non-production systems. Neither approach should be considered a long-term solution as neither corrects the underlying problem.