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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Commons affects IBM Business Process Manager (CVE-2015-7450)

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https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/273367
273367

Security Bulletin


Summary

An Apache Commons Collections vulnerability for handling Java object deserialization was addressed by IBM Business Process Manager.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-7450
DESCRIPTION: Apache Commons Collections could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the deserialization of data with Java InvokerTransformer class. By sending specially crafted data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary Java code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107918 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:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Business Process Manager V8.5.0.0 - V8.5.6.0

Remediation/Fixes

Install IBM Business Process Manager interim fix JR54748 as appropriate for your current IBM Business Process Manager version.

Note that the vulnerable open source library was also included in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) that is shipped with IBM Business Process Manager (all versions and editions). Refer to the following Security bulletin for details about required WAS updates in your BPM environment: Security Bulletin: Security vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM WebSphere Application Server shipped with IBM Business Process Manager and WebSphere Lombardi Edition (CVE-2015-7450, CVE-2015-2017, CVE-2015-4872, CVE-2015-4734, CVE-2015-5006)

Workarounds and Mitigations

none

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

2015-11-30 - initial version published
2015-12-01 - updated metadata to include version 8.5.0.2

*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

swg21972046

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