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Security Bulletin: IBM Bootable Media Creator (BoMC) is affected by vulnerabilities in OpenSSL (CVE-2019-1547 and CVE-2019-1563)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Bootable Media Creator (BoMC) has addressed the following vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2019-1547
DESCRIPTION:   OpenSSL could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the ability to construct an EC group missing the cofactor using explicit parameters instead of using a named curve. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain full key recovery during an ECDSA signature operation.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/167020 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2019-1563
DESCRIPTION:   OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a padding oracle attack in PKCS7_dataDecode and CMS_decrypt_set1_pkey. By sending an overly large number of messages to be decrypted, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/167022 for the current score.
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

The fix is downloaded automatically by BoMC in the background and is not independently accessible on Fix Central.


Remediation/Fixes

The fix is downloaded automatically by BoMC in the background and is not independently accessible on Fix Central.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
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Change History

30 Jun 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:
30 June 2020

Initial Publish date:
30 June 2020

UID

ibm16242312

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