Security Bulletin: Aspera Web Applications (Faspex, Orchestrator, Shares) and On Demand products are affected by OpenSSL Vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-5407)

Summary

Aspera Web Applications (Faspex, Orchestrator, Shares) and On Demand products have addressed the following OpenSSL vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-5407 DESCRIPTION: Multiple SMT/Hyper-Threading architectures and processors could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by execution engine sharing on Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) architecture. By using the PortSmash new side-channel attack, an attacker could run a malicious process next to legitimate processes using the architectures parallel thread running capabilities to leak encrypted data from the CPU’s internal processes. Note: This vulnerability is known as PortSmash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/152484&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Aspera Orchestrator 3.1.12

IBM Aspera Faspex 4.2.0

IBM Aspera Shares 1.9.12

IBM Aspera Platform on Demand 3.7.4

IBM Aspera Server on Demand 3.7.4

IBM Aspera Faspex Server on Demand 3.7.4

IBM Aspera Shares on Demand 3.7.4

Remediation/Fixes

For IBM Aspera (Faspex, Shares, Console, Orchestrator and Virtual Catcher) the issue can be fixed by downloading the following new versions.

On Demand customers should download a related product release for their On Demand image from the following.