Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Commons affects WebSphere Message Broker and IBM Integration Bus (CVE-2015-7450)

Summary

An Apache Commons Collections vulnerability for handling Java object deserialization was addressed in the Global Cache component of WebSphere Message Broker and IBM Integration Bus

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-7450**
DESCRIPTION:** Apache Commons Collections could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the deserialization of data with Java InvokerTransformer class. By sending specially crafted data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary Java code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107918 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Integration Bus V9 , V10

WebSphere Message Broker V8

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF|APAR|Remediation/Fix
—|—|—|—
IBM Integration Bus

| V10.0.0.2 and higher

| IT12315 | An interim fix is available from IBM Fix Central.
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm~WebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/Integration+Bus&release=All&platform=All&function=aparId&apars= IT12315

The APAR is targeted to be available in fix pack 10.0.0.4
IBM Integration Bus

| V10.0.0.1 and lower

| IT12306 | An interim fix is available from IBM Fix Central.
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm~WebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/Integration+Bus&release=All&platform=All&function=aparId&apars= IT12306
IBM Integration Bus

| V9

| IT12306 | An interim fix is available from IBM Fix Central.
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm~WebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/Integration+Bus&release=All&platform=All&function=aparId&apars= IT12306

The APAR is targeted to be available in fix pack 9.0.0.5
WebSphere Message Broker

| V8
| IT12306 | An interim fix is available from IBM Fix Central.
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm~WebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/WebSphere+Message+Broker&release=All&platform=All&function=aparId&apars=IT12306
The APAR is targeted to be available in fix pack 8.0.0.7

For unsupported versions of the product, IBM recommends upgrading to a fixed, supported version/release/platform of the product.

IBM recommends that you review your entire environment to identify vulnerable releases of the open-source Apache Commons Collections and take appropriate mitigation and remediation actions.

The planned maintenance release dates for WebSphere Message Broker and IBM Integration Bus are available at :
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27006308

Workarounds and Mitigations

None