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Security Bulletin: WebSphere Message Broker and IBM Integration Bus are affected by Open Source Tomcat vulnerability (CVE-2014-0227)

Security Bulletin


Summary

WebSphere Message Broker and IBM Integration Bus are affected by Open Source Apache Tomcat vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-0227

DESCRIPTION:
Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted request in a malformed chunked header to the Web server to cause multiple processing conflicts on the servers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100751 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

WebSphere Message Broker V8.0 and V7.0

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMFAPARRemediation/Fix
IBM Integration BusV9.0
IT07182 An interim fix is available from IBM Fix Central for all platforms.
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm~WebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/Integration+Bus&release=All&platform=All&function=aparId&apars=IT07182

The APAR is targeted to be available in fix pack 9.0.0.4
WebSphere Message Broker
V8.0
IT07182 An interim fix is available from IBM Fix Central for all platforms.
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm~WebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/WebSphere+Message+Broker&release=All&platform=All&function=aparId&apars=IT07182

The APAR is targeted to be available in fix pack 8.0.0.7.
WebSphere Message Broker
V7.0
IT07182 An interim fix is available from IBM Fix Central for all platforms.
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm~WebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/WebSphere+Message+Broker&release=All&platform=All&function=aparId&apars=IT07182

The APAR is targeted to be available in fix pack 7.0.0.8.


The planned maintenance release dates for WebSphere Message Broker and IBM Integration Bus are available at :
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=849&uid=swg27006308

Workarounds and Mitigations

None known

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References

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Acknowledgement

None

Change History

13 Jul 2015 - Original version Published
16 Jul 2015 - Removed V7 links
30 Jul 2015 - Added V7 links, Removed V9 links
07 Aug 2015- Added V9 links

*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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Internal Use Only

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Product Synonym

WMB IIB

Document Information

Modified date:
23 March 2020

UID

swg21697709