Improper Certificate Validation in IBM Cloud Automation Manager

1) Improper Certificate Validation

EUVDB-ID: #VU29673

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7919

CWE-ID: CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Go before 1.12.16 and 1.13.x before 1.13.7 (and the crypto/cryptobyte package before 0.0.0-20200124225646-8b5121be2f68 for Go) allows attacks on clients (resulting in a panic) via a malformed X.509 certificate.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

IBM Cloud Automation Manager: 4.2.0.1 iFix 7

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:ibm_corporation:ibm_cloud_automation_manager:4.2.0.1:iFix 7:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6373012

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.