SB2024082749 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Cloud Pak System
Published: August 27, 2024
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-5784)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to Apache Axis did not verify that the server host name matched the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field in X.509 certificates. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and spoof an SSL server if they had a certificate that was valid for any domain name.
2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3596)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
The getCN function in Apache Axis 1.4 and earlier does not properly verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a certificate with a subject that specifies a common name in a field that is not the CN field. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5784. <a href="http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/297.html" target="_blank">CWE-297: Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch</a>
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.