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Security Bulletin: TADDM is vulnerable to a denial of service due to vulnerabilities in Apache HttpClient

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Summary

Apache HttpClient used by IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager and is vulnerable to CVE-2011-1498, CVE-2012-5783, CVE-2012-6153, CVE-2014-3577,CVE-2015-5262

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2011-1498
DESCRIPTION:   Apache HttpComponents could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an unspecified error in HttpClient. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to send the Proxy-Authorization header to the host and disclose the user's password.
CVSS Base score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66241 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2012-5783
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Commons HttpClient, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) merchant Java SDK and other products, 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) field of the X.509 certificate. By persuading a victim to visit a Web site containing a specially-crafted certificate, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to spoof an SSL server.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79984 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2012-6153
DESCRIPTION:   Apache HttpComponents could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by an incomplete fix related to the failure to verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the Subject's Common Name (CN) or SubjectAltName field of certificates. By persuading a victim to visit a Web site containing a specially-crafted certificate, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to spoof an SSL server.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95328 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2014-3577
DESCRIPTION:   Apache HttpComponents 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 certificates. By persuading a victim to visit a Web site containing a specially-crafted certificate, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to spoof an SSL server.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95327 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2015-5262
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Commons is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to apply a configured connection during the initial handshake of an HTTPS connection by the HttpClient component. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to accumulate multiple connections and exhaust all available resources.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/106932 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager7.3.0.0 -7.3.0.10

Remediation/Fixes

In order to fix these vulnerabilities, Please follow below steps:

For TADDM 7.3.0.0-7.3.0.9, Please upgrade your TADDM environment to 7.3.0.10 and then download the e-fix given in Table-1 and apply the e-fix.

For TADDM 7.3.0.10, Please download the e-fix given in Table-1 and apply the  e-fix.

Table-1

Fix
VRMF    
APARHow to acquire fix
efix_apache_https_4.5.14_FP10221123.zip
7.3.0.10
NoneDownload eFix
 
Note: Above e-fix is a custom e-fix, if there is no e-fix applied on your TADDM server, please applied it directly else please raise a case to TADDM Support team to get Custom e-fix.
 
Please refer to the table below to download TADDM FixPack 7.3.0.10.
 
FixHow to acquire fix
7.3-TIV-ITADDM-FP00010Download FixPack
 
 
Please refer to the URL for TADDM FixPack 7.3.0.10 Release Notes containing more information about the update.
 
 
 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

25 Apr 2023: 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:
28 April 2023

UID

ibm16985905