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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in OpenSSL affects IBM MQ Light (CVE-2015-3197)

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Summary

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on January 28, 2016 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM MQ Light. IBM MQ Light has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-3197
DESCRIPTION:
OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks, caused by an error related to the negotiation of disabled SSLv2 ciphers by malicious SSL/TLS clients. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks.
CVSS Base Score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110235 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

The vulnerabilities affect users of the mqlight IBM MQ Light Client Module for Node.js® on all platforms at the following versions:
1.0.2014090800
1.0.2014090801
1.0.2014091000-red
1.0.2014091001

It also affects users of the mqlight-dev IBM MQ Light Client Module for Node.js between versions 1.0.2014090300 and 1.0.2014111002 inclusive.

Remediation/Fixes

Users of the IBM MQ Light Client Module for Node.js at an affected version should update to the latest version of the IBM MQ Light Client Module for Node.js as found on https://www.npmjs.com.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.

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References

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Change History

9 February 2016: Original version published

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

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Document Information

Modified date:
15 June 2018

UID

swg21976345