Security Bulletin: Rational Build Forge Security Advisory for Apache Tomcat (CVE-2018-1304 and CVE-2018-1305)

Summary

Apache Tomcat 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

• This section includes the vulnerability details that affects the Rational Build Forge.

CVEID: CVE-2018-1304 **DESCRIPTION:*Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to properly enforce security constraint definitions that contain a URL pattern of “” (the empty string) that exactly maps to the context root. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass security constraints to access restricted resources. CVSS Base Score: 7.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/139476&gt; for the current score. CVSS Environmental Score: Undefined CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-1305 **DESCRIPTION:*Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to properly enforce security constraints that are defined by annotations of Servlets in certain cases. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass security constraints to access restricted resources. CVSS Base Score: 7.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/139475&gt; for the current score. CVSS Environmental Score: Undefined CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Rational Build Forge from 8.0.0.7.

Remediation/Fixes

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

• Affected Supporting Product
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• Remediation/Fix
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• IBM Rational Build Forge 8.0.0.7
  | Rational Build Forge 8.0.0.8 Download.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.