Security Bulletin: An unspecified vulnerability in event processing could allow elevated privileges in IBM Systems Director (CVE-2015-1992)

Vulnerability Details

Summary

An unspecified vulnerability in event processing may cause unwanted behavior.

Vulnerability Details:

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1992

Description: An unspecified vulnerability in event processing could allow elevated privileges

CVSS Base Score: 6.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/103846 for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Affected products and versions

From the IBM Systems 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 750332425 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

References:

• 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
18 August 2015: Revised 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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