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Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM® WebSphere Application Server Liberty shipped with IBM Security Directory Suite (CVE-2016-0378, CVE-2016-5983 and CVE-2016-5986)

Created by Pradip Jadav on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/558753
558753

Security Bulletin


Summary

There are vulnerabilities in IBM® WebSphere Application Server Liberty shipped with IBM Security Directory Suite. Those issues were disclosed as part of the IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty updates and it includes all vulnerabilities details.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-0378
DESCRIPTION: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information caused by improper handling of exceptions when a default error page does not exist.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112240 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2016-5983
DESCRIPTION: IBM WebSphere Application Server could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code with a serialized object from untrusted sources.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/116468 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-5986
DESCRIPTION: IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the improper handling of responses under certain conditions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain server identification information.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/116556 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Directory Suite 8.0 and 8.0.1 which consumes IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty 8.5.5

Remediation/Fixes

Recent release contains IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty 16.0.0.4 which has fix for all above vulnerabilities.

Product

Remediation
IBM Security Directory Suite 8.0Contact IBM Support
IBM Security Directory Suite 8.0.1IBM Security Directory Suite 8.0.1.2

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

Original Document Published - June 18, 2017

*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

Review the IBM security bulletin disclaimer and definitions regarding your responsibilities for assessing potential impact of security vulnerabilities to your environment.

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg22002049

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