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Security Bulletin: A vulnerability affects the Cordova platform packaged with Rational Application Developer (CVE-2015-8320)

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Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/542605
542605

Security Bulletin


Summary

A vulnerability has been discovered that affects the Cordova platform packaged with Rational Application Developer.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-8320

DESCRIPTION: Apache Cordova Android could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by weak randomization of BridgeSecret data. By predicting a value, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to hijack the system.

CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108201 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software 9.1 and 9.5.

Remediation/Fixes

Update the Android platform to 4.1.1 using the Node Packaged Modules software provided with the product::

ProductVRMFAPARRemediation/First Fix
Rational Application Developer9.1.xPI57585Update the Android platform to 4.1.1 using the Node Packaged Modules software provided with the product:
  1. Open a command terminal and navigate to <product installation directory>/cordova_cli/ (for Windows) or <product installation directory>/cordova_cli/bin/ (for Linux or MacOS)
  2. Issue the following command in the same terminal to upgrade the Android platform to 4.1.1:

    cordova platform update android@4.1.1 --usenpm
  3. Rebuild your application and redeploy to your users

    After making these changes to the allowlist (if they are needed) then you will need to rebuild your Android application and distribute to your users as an update.
Rational Application Developer9.5.xPI57585Update the Android platform to 4.1.1 using the Node Packaged Modules software provided with the product:
  1. Open a command terminal and navigate to <product installation directory>/runtimes/nodejs/ (for Windows) or <product installation directory>/runtimes/nodejs/bin/ (for Linux or MacOS)
  2. Issue the following command in the same terminal to upgrade the Android platform to 4.1.1:

    cordova platform update android@4.1.1 --usenpm
  3. Rebuild your application and redeploy to your users

    After making these changes to the allowlist (if they are needed) then you will need to rebuild your Android application and distribute to your users as an update.

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

* 4 March 2014: Original copy 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:
04 February 2020

UID

swg21977254

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