Security Bulletin
Summary
The vulnerability in CVE-2021-3712 have been addressed in the latest interim Fix (iFix) available on Fix Central for all 3 affected versions. Please note that this CVE only impacts the MessageBroker Suite of MDM Standard Edition (SE).
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2021-3712
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an out-of-bounds read when processing ASN.1 strings. By sending specially crafted data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read contents of memory on the system or perform a denial of service attack.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/208073 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| InfoSphere Master Data Management | 12.0 |
| InfoSphere Master Data Management | 11.5 |
| InfoSphere Master Data Management | 11.6 |
Remediation/Fixes
This issue with OpenSSL has been resolved and available on Fix Central as an iFix for clients to apply.
Depending on the version a client is running, they should apply latest iFix package available for the 3 MDM versions impacted - 11.5.0, 11.6.0 and 12.0.
Please note that this vulnerability only impacts the MessageBroker Suite of MDM Standard Edition (SE).
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
13 Jan 2022: 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 April 2022
Initial Publish date:
13 January 2022
UID
ibm16540644