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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2015.0061 Security Bulletin: TLS padding vulnerability affects IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (CVE-2014-8730) 12 January 2015 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Publisher: IBM Operating System: AIX HP-UX Linux variants Solaris Windows Impact/Access: Access Confidential Data -- Remote with User Interaction Reduced Security -- Remote with User Interaction Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2014-8730 Reference: ESB-2015.0053 ESB-2015.0052 ESB-2015.0051 ESB-2015.0050 ESB-2014.2404 ESB-2014.2375 ESB-2014.2325 Original Bulletin: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21693422 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- Security Bulletin: TLS padding vulnerability affects IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (CVE-2014-8730) Document information More support for: Cognos Business Intelligence Software version: 10.2.2 Operating system(s): AIX, HP Itanium, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows Reference #: 1693422 Modified date: 2015-01-09 Security Bulletin Summary Transport Layer Security (TLS) padding vulnerability via a POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) like attack affects IBM Cognos Business Intelligence. Vulnerability Details CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8730 DESCRIPTION: Product could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to check the contents of the padding bytes when using CBC cipher suites of some TLS implementations. A remote user with the ability to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack could exploit this vulnerability via a POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) like attack to decrypt sensitive information and calculate the plaintext of secure connections. CVSS Base Score: 4.3 CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/99216 for the current score CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) Affected Products and Versions IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 10.2.2 Remediation/Fixes The recommended solution is to apply the fix for versions listed as soon as practical. You should verify applying this fix does not cause any compatibility issues. Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.2 IF2 Get Notified about Future Security Bulletins Subscribe to My Notifications to be notified of important product support alerts like this. References Complete CVSS Guide On-line Calculator V2 Related information IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog Acknowledgement None Change History 9 January 2015: 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 According to the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is an "industry open standard designed to convey vulnerability severity and help to determine urgency and priority of response." 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