Security Bulletin: Security vulnerabilities in OpenSSL used by Rational Build Forge (CVE-2017-3737 and CVE-2017-3738)

Summary

OpenSSL, used by Rational Build Forge, has security vulnerabilities that allows a remote attacker to exploit the application. Respective security vulnerabilities are discussed in detail in the subsequent sections.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-3738**
DESCRIPTION:**OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain information about the private key. Note: In order to exploit this vulnerability, the server would have to share the DH1024 private key among multiple clients, which is no longer an option since CVE-2016-0701. **CVSS Base Score:**3.1 **CVSS Temporal Score:**See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/136078 for the current score. *CVSS Environmental Score:**Undefined **CVSS Vector: **(CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2017-3737**
DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in multiple Oracle products could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause low confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and high availability impact. **CVSS Base Score:**5.3 **CVSS Temporal Score:**See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/136077 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:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Rational Build Forge from 8.0.0.6.

Remediation/Fixes

You must download the Fix pack specified in the following table and apply it.

Affected Version |

Fix
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Build Forge 8.0.0.6 |

Rational Build Forge 8.0.0.7 Download.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.