Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in SSLv3 affects IBM Systems Director (CVE-2014-3566)

Vulnerability Details

Summary

SSLv3 contains a vulnerability that has been referred to as the Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption (POODLE) attack. SSLv3 is enabled in IBM Systems Director.

Vulnerability Details:

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3566

Description: Product could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a design error when using the SSLv3 protocol. A remote user with the ability to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack could exploit this vulnerability via a POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) attack to decrypt SSL sessions and access the plaintext of encrypted connections.

CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/97013 for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Affected products and versions

From the IBM System Director command line enter smcli lsver to determine the level of IBM System Director installed.

IBM Systems Director:

• 5.2.x.x
• 6.1.x.x
• 6.2.0.x
• 6.2.1.x
• 6.3.0.0
• 6.3.1.x
• 6.3.2.x
• 6.3.3.x
• 6.3.5.0
• 6.3.6.0
• 6.3.7.0

Remediation/Fixes:

Releases 5.2.x.x, 6.1.x.x are unsupported and will not be fixed.

Follow the instructions mentioned under http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/support/ and search for Tech note 732521668 to apply the fix for releases:

• 6.2.0.x
• 6.2.1.x
• 6.3.0.0
• 6.3.1.x
• 6.3.2.x
• 6.3.3.x
• 6.3.5.0
• 6.3.6.0
• 6.3.7.0

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None.

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Reference:

• Complete CVSS Guide
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Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

None.

Change History
11 March 2015: Original Version Published
15 December 2015: versions 6.3.6.0 and 6.3.7.0 added to Affected Products and Remediation

* 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 Flash.

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