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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager is affected by inadequate account lockout setting (CVE-2016-6095)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager allows attacker to conduct brute force dictionary attacks to bypass authentication because it is missing an account lockout mechanism.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-6095
DESCRIPTION: IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager uses an inadequate account lockout setting that could allow a remote attacker to brute force account credentials.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/118174 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:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager: v2.5 - 2.5.0.7

IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager v2.6 - 2.6.0.2

Remediation/Fixes

<Product

VRMFRemediation/First Fix
IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager2.5 - 2.5.0.72.5.0-ISS-SKLM-FP0008
IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager2.6- 2.6.0.22.6.0-ISS-SKLM-FP0003

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
On-line Calculator v2

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

31st Jan 2017 - 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:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21997802

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