Security Bulletin
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities in Open Source Apache Tomcat reported by The Apache Software Foundation affect IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2017-5648
DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to use the appropriate facade object by certain application listener calls. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access and modify data on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124399 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)
CVEID: CVE-2017-5647
DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the processing of pipelined requests in send file. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information from the wrong response.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124400 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
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
TADDM 7.2.2.0 - 7.2.2.5
TADDM 7.3.0.0 (TADDM 7.3.0.1-3 - not affected - using WebSphere Liberty Profile)
Remediation/Fixes
There are eFixes prepared on top of the latest released FixPack for each stream:
| Fix | VRMF | APAR | How to acquire fix |
| efix_TADDM73_tomcat7077_201411291020_1.zip | 7.3.0.0 | None | Download eFix |
| efix_TADDM722_tomcat7077_FP520160209.zip | 7.2.2.5 | None | Download eFix |
Please get familiar with eFix readme in etc/<efix_name>_readme.txt
Note that the eFix requires manual deletion of the external/apache-tomcat directory.
Workarounds and Mitigations
The solution is to upgrade TADDM to use Tomcat version 7.0.77
eFixes are prepared on top of the latest FixPack release, but if there were any custom changes made in a previous version of Apache Tomcat, please reapply them after the upgrade is finished.
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References
Change History
12th May 2017: Original version 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.
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Document Information
Modified date:
17 June 2018
UID
swg22003395