Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center on AIX (CVE-2019-4473, CVE-2019-11771)

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Runtime Environment Java which is used by IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly Tivoli Storage Manager) Operations Center on AIX. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in July 2019. UPDATED: 3/31/2020 to add 7.1 fix.

Vulnerability Details

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-2019-11771
**DESCRIPTION:**AIX builds of Eclipse OpenJ9 before 0.15.0 contain unused RPATHs which may facilitate code injection and privilege elevation by local users.
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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Spectrum Protect **Operations Center

Workarounds and Mitigations

None