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Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in the Apache POI, which is vulnerable to Denial of Service. (CVE-2017-12626, CVE-2017-5644)

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Security Bulletin


Summary

The Apache POI has security vulnerability to exploit the application through denial of service. Respective security vulnerabilities are discussed in detail in the subsequent sections.

Vulnerability Details

IBM Rational Asset Manager bundles Apache POI, which is used to set custom attributes of a document.

CVEID: CVE-2017-12626
DESCRIPTION: Apache POI is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error while parsing malicious WMF, EMF, MSG and macros and specially crafted DOC, PPT and XLS. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop or an out of memory exception.
CVSS Base Score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/138361 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:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2017-5644
DESCRIPTION: Apache POI is vulnerable to a denial of service, cause by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. By using a specially-crafted OOXML file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available CPU resources.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/123699 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:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions


Rational Asset Manager 7.5.3.2 and earlier.

Remediation/Fixes

You must upgrade to the Rational Asset Manager 7.5.3.3 or Download the iFix specified in the following table and apply it.

    Version
    Fix
    Rational Asset Manager 7.5.2.4
    Rational Asset Manager 7.5.2.4 iFix Download.

NOTE: For support on other Rational Asset Manager versions, please contact IBM support.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.

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References

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

None

Change History

* 16 MAR 2018: 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.

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Internal Use Only

None.

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Document Information

Modified date:
20 April 2020

UID

swg22014176

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