Security Bulletin: DS8870 Release 7.x affected by a vulnerability in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0224)

Summary

Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL which impact the management port on DS8870 R7.x

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0224

DESCRIPTION:

An attacker using a carefully crafted handshake can force the use of weak keying material in OpenSSL SSL/TLS clients and servers. This can be exploited by a Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack where the attacker can decrypt and modify traffic from the attacked client and server. The attack can only be performed between a vulnerable client and server.

CVSS Base Score: 5.8

CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/93586&gt; for the current score

CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined

CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

DS8870 Release 7.x

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly suggests that you install the vulnerability fix identified immediately below

Please contact your IBM representative to order and install the service release

Workarounds and Mitigations

The following steps can help mitigate, but not eliminate the risks of this vulnerability:

• Ensure that the DS8000 HMC is installed behind a firewall that limits access to the ports.
• Ensure that clients used for management are not exposed to this issue since both the server and the client need to have the issue to be exploited.
• Customers that do not require the CIM interface and do not install the fix, should stop the CIM Agent.

To stop the CIM Agent using the Web User Interface on the Hardware Master Console (HMC).

- login as “customer”