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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK affect Rational Service Tester (CVE-2015-7575, CVE-2016-0475)

Security Bulletin


Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 7 & 8 that is used by Rational Service Tester. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2016 and includes the vulnerability commonly referred to as “SLOTH”.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-0475
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Libraries component has partial confidentiality impact, partial integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 5.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109946 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-7575
DESCRIPTION: The TLS protocol could allow weaker than expected security caused by a collision attack when using the MD5 hash function for signing a ServerKeyExchange message during a TLS handshake. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to impersonate a TLS server and obtain credentials. This vulnerability is commonly referred to as “SLOTH”.
CVSS Base Score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109415 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Rational Service Tester versions 8.3.x, 8.5.x, 8.6.x, 8.7.x and 9.0

Remediation/Fixes

Updating to version 9.0.0.1 is strongly recommended.


ProductVRMFAPARRemediation/First Fix
RPT Workbench9.0Nonehttp://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=ibm%7ERational&product=ibm/Rational/Rational+Performance+Tester&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=Rational-RPT-JavaPatch-Java8SR2FP10&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
RPT Agent9.0NoneDownload http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=ibm%7ERational&product=ibm/Rational/Rational+Performance+Tester&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=Rational-RPT-JavaPatch-Java7SR9FP30&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
RPT8.7 - 8.7.xNoneDownload http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=ibm%7ERational&product=ibm/Rational/Rational+Performance+Tester&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=Rational-RPT-JavaPatch-Java7SR9FP30&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
RPT8.6 - 8.6.xNoneDownload http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=ibm%7ERational&product=ibm/Rational/Rational+Performance+Tester&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=Rational-RPT-JavaPatch-Java7SR9FP30&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
RPT8.5 - 8.5.xNoneDownload http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=ibm%7ERational&product=ibm/Rational/Rational+Performance+Tester&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=Rational-RPT-JavaPatch-Java7SR9FP30&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
RPT8.3 -8.3.xNoneDownload http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=ibm%7ERational&product=ibm/Rational/Rational+Performance+Tester&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=Rational-RPT-JavaPatch-Java7SR9FP30&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
On-line Calculator v2

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

CVE-2015-7575 was reported to IBM by Karthikeyan Bhargavan at INRIA in Paris, France

Change History

4 May 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

Review the IBM security bulletin disclaimer and definitions regarding your responsibilities for assessing potential impact of security vulnerabilities to your environment.

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

swg21982446

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