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Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Appliance is affected by an unauthorized access vulnerability (CVE-2018-1668)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM MQ Appliance has addressed the following unauthorized access vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:  CVE-2018-1668
DESCRIPTION: IBM WebSphere DataPower Appliances allows "null" logins which could give read access to IPMI data to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See  https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/144894  for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM MQ Appliance 8.0
Maintenance levels between 8.0.0.0 and 8.0.0.11

IBM MQ Appliance 9.1 Long Term Support (LTS) Release
Maintenance levels between 9.1.0.0 and 9.1.0.1

IBM MQ Appliance 9.1.x Continuous Delivery (CD) Release
Continuous delivery update 9.1.1

Remediation/Fixes

IBM MQ Appliance 8.0
Apply  iFix IT27359 , or later.

IBM MQ Appliance 9.1 Long Term Support (LTS) Release
Apply  iFix IT27359 , or later.

IBM MQ Appliance 9.1.x Continuous Delivery (CD) Release
Apply  iFix IT27359 , or later.

Workarounds and Mitigations

Only affects the IBM MQ Appliance when the IPMI interface is enabled.

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

Contact McNamee, Bill and Rocks, Jonathan for acknowledgement info

Change History

21 Feb 2019 : Original version 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.

Disclaimer

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Internal Use Only

PSIRT Product Record 119336
PSIRT Product Advisory 12288

Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
21 February 2019

UID

ibm10871908

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