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Security Bulletin: Man in the middle vulnerability CVE-2014-3603 affects Websphere Liberty and OpenLiberty used by MobileFirst Platform Foundation

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Summary

IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation has addressed the following vulnerability.Man in the middle vulnerability CVE-2014-3603 affects Websphere Liberty and OpenLiberty

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2014-3603
DESCRIPTION:   Shibboleth Identity Provider (IdP) and OpenSAML Java could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by the failure to verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate. A man-in-the-middle attacker could exploit this vulnerability using an arbitrary valid certificate.to spoof SSL servers.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/164271 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation 7.1.0.0 - using the scripts (BYOL)
IBM MobileFirst Foundation 8.0.0.0 - ICP, IKS or using the scripts (BYOL)

Remediation/Fixes

                Product  VRMF                       Remediation/First Fix
 IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation 7.1.0.0 Download the iFix from IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation on FixCentral 
 IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation 8.0.0.0 Download the iFix from IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation on FixCentral

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

25 Feb 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 February 2020

Initial Publish date:
25 February 2020

UID

ibm13605895

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