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Security Bulletin: IBM Tivoli Monitoring Basic Services Vulnerability (CVE-2016-5933)

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Summary

A vulnerability has been resolved in the Basic Services component of IBM Tivoli Monitoring in which the Firewall (Proxy) Gateway was vulnerable to possible host header injection attack that could lead to HTTP cache poisoning or firewall bypass.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-5933
DESCRIPTION: IBM Tivoli Monitoring is vulnerable to possible host header injection attack that could lead to HTTP cache poisoning or firewall bypass.
CVSS Base Score: 4.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/115818 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Tivoli Monitoring version 6.2.2 through 6.2.2 Fix Pack 9

IBM Tivoli Monitoring version 6.2.3 through 6.2.3 Fix Pack 5

IBM Tivoli Monitoring version 6.3.0 through 6.3.0 Fix Pack 7

This issue could apply to any component if and only if the firewall gateway feature is activated. By default the firewall gateway feature is not activated and typically it should only be activated on an endpoint (Agent only) system.

For details on the firewall gateway feature, See: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSTFXA_6.3.0.2/com.ibm.itm.doc_6.3/install/gateway_activation.htm

Remediation/Fixes

The recommended solution is to apply the fix for the version of IBM Tivoli Monitoring as listed below:

Fix

VRMFAPARHow to acquire fix
6.2.2-TIV-ITM-FP0009-IV875246.2.2.9IV87524http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043383
6.2.3-TIV-ITM-FP0005-IV875246.2.3.5IV87524
6.3.0-TIV-ITM-FP0007-IV875246.3.0.7IV87524

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References

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

2017-01-13: Original created

*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:
17 June 2018

UID

swg21997223

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