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Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Appliance is affected by an OpenSSH vulnerability (CVE-2018-15473)

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Summary

IBM MQ Appliance has addressed the following OpenSSH vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2018-15473
DESCRIPTION:   OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until after the packet containing the request has been fully parsed, related to auth2-gss.c, auth2-hostbased.c, and auth2-pubkey.c.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148397 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
IBM MQ Appliance 8.0
IBM MQ Appliance 9.1 LTS
IBM MQ Appliance 9.1 CD

Remediation/Fixes

IBM MQ Appliance 8
Apply fix pack 8.0.0.14, or later.
IBM MQ Appliance version 9.1 LTS
Apply fix pack 9.1.0.4, or later.
IBM MQ Appliance version 9.1 CD
Apply continuous delivery release 9.1.4, or later.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

24 Jan 2020 : Initial Publication

*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.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
27 January 2020

UID

ibm11125879