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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Intel Xeon affects IBM Cloud Pak System (CVE-2021-0144)

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Summary

A vulnerability found in Intel Xeon affects IBM Cloud Pak System. IBM Cloud Pak System addressed this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-0144
DESCRIPTION:   Intel Xeon and Intel Core products could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by insecure default variable initialization in the BSSA DFT feature. An authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain higher privileges.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205386 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version
IBM Cloud Pak System

 V2.3, V2.3.1.1, V2.3.2.0

 v2.3.3.1, V2.3.3.2, V2.3.3.3, V2.3.3.3 ifix1 

 

 

Affected Node/System Component

Compute node X240 M5

UEFI

 

Compute Node X3350 M5

UEFI

 SN550

UEFI

 SR630

UEFI

 

 

Remediation/Fixes

For unsupported release/version/platform recommendation is to upgrade to supported fixed release of the product.

System (s) Firmware update Version

Compute node X240-M5

UEFI 3.30

 

Compute Node X3350-M5

UEFI 3.30

 SN550

UEFI  IVE174F

 SR630

UEFI IVE174F

 

For Cloud Pak System V2.3.0.1, V.2.3.1.1, v.2.3.2.0, v2.3.3.0, v.2.3.3.1, v.2.3.3.2, v.2.3.3.3, v2.3.3.3 Interim Fix 1, 

                    upgrade to IBM Cloud Pak System v2.3.3.4 at Fix Central

Information on upgrading : http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10887959

 

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

Acknowledgement

Change History

8 Mar 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.

Disclaimer

Review the IBM security bulletin disclaimer and definitions regarding your responsibilities for assessing potential impact of security vulnerabilities to your environment.

Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
02 May 2022

UID

ibm16558964

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