Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in the IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affects IBM Performance Management products

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities in the IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affects IBM Performance Management products

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-2766
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE related to the Java SE, Java SE Embedded 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/163829 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2019-11772
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse OpenJ9 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds write in the String.getBytes method. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt memory and write to any 32-bit address or beyond the end of a byte array within Java code run under a SecurityManager.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/163990 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2019-2816
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE related to the Java SE, Java SE Embedded Networking component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause low confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 4.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/163878 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2019-2769
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE related to the Java SE, Java SE Embedded Utilities 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/163832 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2019-11771
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse OpenJ9 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by the inclusion of unused RPATHS in AIX builds. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject code and gain elevated privileges on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/163989 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2019-7317
**DESCRIPTION:**Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free in the png_image_free function in the libpng library. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/161346 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2019-11775
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse OpenJ9 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an error where the loop versioner fails to privatize a value that is pulled out of the loop by versioning. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt memory and trigger an out-of-array-bounds and perform invalid actions.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/164479 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2019-4473
**DESCRIPTION:**Multiple binaries in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition 7, 7R, and 8 on the AIX platform use insecure absolute RPATHs, which may facilitate code injection and privilege elevation by local users. IBM X-Force ID: 163984.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/163984 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2019-2786
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE related to the Java SE, Java SE Embedded Security component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information resulting in a low confidentiality impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base score: 3.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/163849 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2019-2762
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE related to the Java SE, Java SE Embedded Utilities 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/163826 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Product | Product
VRMF| Remediation
—|—|—
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Base Private

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Advanced Private| 8.1.4| The vulnerabilities can be remediated by applying the Core Framework interim fix8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-CORE-FRAMEWORK-APM-IF0017 to all systems where Cloud APM agents are installed:
<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/8140-ibm-apm-core-framework-if0017&gt;
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management| N/A| After your subscription is upgraded to V8.1.4, the vulnerabilities can be remediated by either

a) downloading the Core Framework interim fix 8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-CORE-FRAMEWORK-APM-IF0017 to all systems where Cloud APM agents are installed and applying the fix by following the instructions at this link:
<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/8140-ibm-apm-core-framework-if0017&gt;

b) downloading the Cloud APM agent packages for the operating systems that your agents run on and using the downloaded packages to upgrade existing agents to use the updated Core Framework or to install new agents with the updated Core Framework.

Please refer to the link <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSMKFH/com.ibm.apmaas.doc/install/download_agents_intro.htm&gt; for details
on downloading agent packages from IBM Marketplace

Please refer to the link <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSMKFH/com.ibm.apmaas.doc/install/install_agent_upgrade.htm&gt;
for details on upgrading existing agents.

Please refer to the link <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSMKFH/com.ibm.apmaas.doc/install/install_intro.htm&gt;
for details on installing new agents.
IBM Monitoring
IBM Application Diagnostics
IBM Application Performance Management
IBM Application Performance Management Advanced| 8.1.3| The vulnerabilities can be remediated by applying the Core Framework interim fix 8.1.3.0-IBM-IPM-CORE-FRAMEWORK-IPM-IF0011 to all systems where Performance Management agents are installed:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=isg400003681

Workarounds and Mitigations

None