Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Diffie-Hellman ciphers affects IBM Systems Director (CVE-2015-4000)

Vulnerability Details

Summary

The Logjam Attack on TLS connections using the Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange protocol affects IBM Systems Director.

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-4000

Description: The TLS protocol could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to properly convey a DHE_EXPORT ciphersuite choice. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to force a downgrade to 512-bit export-grade cipher. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to recover the session key as well as modify the contents of the traffic. This vulnerability is commonly referred to as "Logjam".

CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/103294 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

Remediation/Fixes

For Releases 5.2.x.x, 6.1.x.x IBM recommends upgrading to a fixed, supported version of the product.

Follow the instructions mentioned under http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/support/ and search for Tech note 751206455 or "June 2015 IBM Systems Director JRE Update" 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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.

Reference

• Complete CVSS Guide
• On-line Calculator V2

Related Information
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

None.

Change History
24 July 2015: Original Copy Published

* 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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