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Security Bulletin: Novalink is impacted by Man in the middle vulnerability in WebSphere Application Server Liberty (CVE-2014-3603)

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Summary

Novalink uses WebSphere Application Server Liberty. There is a man in the middle vulnerability in WebSphere Application Server Liberty. This vulnerability has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2014-3603
DESCRIPTION:   Shibboleth Identity Provider (IdP) and OpenSAML Java could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by the failure to verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate. A man-in-the-middle attacker could exploit this vulnerability using an arbitrary valid certificate.to spoof SSL servers.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/164271 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
NovaLink1.0.0.13
NovaLink1.0.0.15

Remediation/Fixes

The recommended solution is to upgrade to Novalink version 1.0.0.16

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

13 Jul 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:
27 July 2020

Initial Publish date:
13 July 2020

UID

ibm16253231