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Security Bulletin: Bouncy Castle as used by IBM QRadar SIEM contains multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-1000613, CVE-2017-13098, CVE-2018-1000180)

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Summary

Bouncy Castle as used by IBM QRadar SIEM contains multiple vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2018-1000613
DESCRIPTION:   Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography APIs could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe reflection flaw in XMSS/XMSS^MT private key deserialization. By using specially-crafted private key, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148041 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2017-13098
DESCRIPTION:   Bouncy Castle could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an RSA Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext (Bleichenbacher) attack. By utilizing discrepancies in TLS error messages, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain the data in the encrypted messages once the TLS session has completed. Note: This vulnerability is also known as the ROBOT attack.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/136241 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2018-1000180
DESCRIPTION:   Bouncy Castle could provide weaker than expected security, caused by an error in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator. The RSA Key Pairs generated in low-level API with added certainty may have less M-R tests than expected. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/144810 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

7.3

All WindowsDHCPProtocol versions before 7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-WindowsDHCPProtocol-7.3-20201007124637

All SmbTailProtocol versions before 7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-SmbTailProtocol-7.3-20201007124637

All OracleDatabaseListener versions before 7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-OracleDatabaseListener-7.3-20201007124637

All WindowsExchangeProtocol versions before 7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-WindowsExchangeProtocol-7.3-20201007124637

All WindowsIISProtocol versions before 7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-WindowsIISProtocol-7.3-20201007124637

All EMCVMWareProtocol versions before 7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-EMCVMWareProtocol-7.3-20200916171440

7.4

All WindowsDHCPProtocol versions before 7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-WindowsDHCPProtocol-7.4-20201007123631

All SmbTailProtocol versions before 7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-SmbTailProtocol-7.4-20201007123631

All OracleDatabaseListener versions before 7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-OracleDatabaseListener-7.4-20201007123631

All WindowsExchangeProtocol versions before 7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-WindowsExchangeProtocol-7.4-20201007123631

All WindowsIISProtocol versions before 7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-WindowsIISProtocol-7.4-20201007123631

All EMCVMWareProtocol versions before 7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-EMCVMWareProtocol-7.4-20200916171516

Remediation/Fixes

7.3

7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-WindowsDHCPProtocol-7.3-20201007124637

7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-SmbTailProtocol-7.3-20201007124637

7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-OracleDatabaseListener-7.3-20201007124637

7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-WindowsExchangeProtocol-7.3-20201007124637

7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-WindowsIISProtocol-7.3-20201007124637

7.3.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-EMCVMWareProtocol-7.3-20200916171440

7.4

7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-WindowsDHCPProtocol-7.4-20201007123631

7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-SmbTailProtocol-7.4-20201007123631

7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-OracleDatabaseListener-7.4-20201007123631

7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-WindowsExchangeProtocol-7.4-20201007123631

7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-WindowsIISProtocol-7.4-20201007123631

7.4.0-QRADAR-PROTOCOL-EMCVMWareProtocol-7.4-20200916171516

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

These files were released as part of the 21 October 2020 auto update bundle. Administrators can confirm the protocol version installed on the Console from the Auto Update interface on the Admin tab or using yum info Protocol-WindowsDHCPProtocol from the command-line interface to confirm the latest version is installed. 

For example:


[root@examplehost]# yum info Protocol-WindowsDHCPProtocol
Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Installed Packages
Name        : PROTOCOL-WindowsDHCPProtocol
Arch        : noarch
Version     : 7.3
Release     : 20161017144311
Size        : 169 k
Repo        : installed
Summary     : PROTOCOL Windows DHCP Protocol Install
License     : Proprietary.
Description : This program installs a Windows DHCP Protocol PROTOCOL plugin.

Note:

After applying this update, it is required to perform the following steps:

1. Perform a Full Deploy

2. Restart Tomcat.

To restart Tomcat:

[root@examplehost]# systemctl restart tomcat

Acknowledgement

Change History

28 Oct 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
05 February 2021

Initial Publish date:
28 October 2020

UID

ibm16356449

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