Security Bulletin: A Security Vulnerability affects IBM Cloud Private - CVE-2018-1938

Summary

Intra-service communications to IBM Cloud Private Identity and Access Management (IAM) pdp service uses http

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1938 DESCRIPTION: IBM Cloud Private could alllow a local user with administrator privileges to intercept highly sensitive unencrypted data.
CVSS Base Score: 4.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/153318&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Cloud Private 3.1.1

Remediation/Fixes

For IBM Cloud Private 3.1.1:

Encrypt cluster data network traffic with IPsec as described in the IBM Cloud Private Knowledge Center. This will create encrypted channels between all nodes and the services running on those nodes

or

Upgrade to version 3.1.2 which can be obtained from IBM Passport Advantage

Workarounds and Mitigations

See Remediation/Fixes