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Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Apache Tomcat affects Rational Reporting for Development Intelligence (CVE-2015-5174)

Security Bulletin


Summary

The Rational Reporting for Development Intelligence (RRDI) is shipped with a version of the Apache Tomcat web server which contains a security vulnerability that could have a potential security impact.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-5174
DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) in the getResource(), getResourceAsStream() and getResourcePaths() ServletContext methods to obtain a directory listing for the directory.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110860 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

Principal Product and Version(s)

Affected Supporting Product(s) and Version(s)
RRDI 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.3 and 2.0.4Cognos BI 10.1.1
RRDI 2.0.5 and 2.0.6Cognos BI 10.2.1
RRDI 5.0, 5.0.1 and 5.0.2Cognos BI 10.2.1 Fix pack 2
Jazz Reporting Service 5.0, 5.0.1 and 5.0.2

Remediation/Fixes


Apply the recommended fixes to all affected versions of RRDI.

RRDI 2.0, 2.0.0.1, 2.0.1, 2.0.3 and 2.0.4


RRDI 2.0.5 and 2.0.6


RRDI 5.0 and 5.0.1 and 5.0.2

  1. If the Data Collection Component (DCC) or Jazz Reporting Service (JRS, also known as Report Builder) is used, perform this step first.
    Review the topics in Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in Jazz Team Server shipped with Jazz Reporting Service (CVE-2015-5345, CVE-2015-5346, CVE-2015-5351, CVE-2016-0706, CVE-2016-0714, CVE-2016-0763, CVE-2015-5174) for addressing the listed vulnerability in the underlying Jazz Team Server.
  2. If the Cognos-based reporting server is used, also perform this step.
    Download the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.1.1 Interim Fix 16 (Implemented by file 10.2.5010.512).
    Review technote 1679283: Installing Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.1.x fix pack in Rational Reporting for Development Intelligence 2.0.x/5.0.x and Rational Insight 1.1.1.x for the detailed instructions for patch application.

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

*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 # 4905 Record # 72658

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

swg21986558

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