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Security Bulletin: Rational Team Concert (RTC) and IBM Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2021-4044

Security Bulletin


Summary

There is a vulnerability CVE-2021-4044 which affects Rational Team Concert (RTC) and IBM Engineering Workflow Management (EWM).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-4044
DESCRIPTION:   OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by invalid handling of X509_verify_cert() internal errors in libssl. By using a specially crafted certificate chain an attacker could induce incorrect, application dependent behaviour and cause a crash or infinite loop.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/215348 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
EWM7.0.2
EWM7.0.1
RTC6.0.6.1
EWM7.0
RTC6.0.6

Remediation/Fixes

For the 6.0.6 - 7.0.2 releases:

 

Upgrade to version 7.0.2 iFix013 or later

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.2 iFix013

IBM Engineering Workflow Management 7.0.2 iFix013

Upgrade to version 7.0.1 iFix017 or later

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0.1 iFix017

IBM Engineering Workflow Management 7.0.1 iFix017

Upgrade to version 7.0 iFix015 or later

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management 7.0 iFix015

IBM Engineering Workflow Management 7.0 iFix015

Upgrade to version 6.0.6.1 iFix025 or later

Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management 6.0.6.1 iFix025

Rational Team Concert 6.0.6.1 iFix025

Upgrade to version 6.0.6 iFix026 or later

Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management 6.0.6 iFix026

Rational Team Concert 6.0.6 iFix026

 

 

 

 

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

Change History

16 Jun 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:
21 June 2022

Initial Publish date:
16 June 2022

UID

ibm16597229

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