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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2017.0930 Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence shipped with IBM Cognos Planning (CVE-2016-5388). 11 April 2017 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: IBM Cognos Planning Publisher: IBM Operating System: Windows Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote/Unauthenticated Increased Privileges -- Existing Account Provide Misleading Information -- Remote/Unauthenticated Access Confidential Data -- Remote/Unauthenticated Unauthorised Access -- Existing Account Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2016-9985 CVE-2016-8735 CVE-2016-6816 CVE-2016-6797 CVE-2016-6796 CVE-2016-6794 CVE-2016-5983 CVE-2016-5388 CVE-2016-5018 CVE-2016-0762 Reference: ESB-2017.0582 Original Bulletin: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22001799 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence shipped with IBM Cognos Planning (CVE-2016-5388). Security Bulletin Document information More support for: Cognos Planning Software version: 10.1.1, 10.2 Operating system(s): Windows Reference #: 2001799 Modified date: 10 April 2017 Summary IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is shipped with IBM Cognos Planning. Information about a security vulnerability affecting IBM Cognos Business Intelligence has been published in a security bulletin. Vulnerability Details Refer to the security bulletin listed in the Remediation/Fixes section. Affected Products and Versions IBM Cognos Planning 10.1.1 IBM Cognos Planning 10.2 Remediation/Fixes Refer to the following security bulletins for vulnerability details and information about fixes addressed by IBM Cognos Business Intelligence which is shipped with IBM Cognos Planning. Principal Product and Version(s) Affected Supporting Product and Version Affected Supporting Product Security Bulletin Security Bulletin: IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 2017Q1 Security Updater : IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server is affected by multiple vulnerabilities. IBM Cognos Planning 10.1.1 IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1.1 IBM Cognos Planning 10.2 IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.2 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2016-9985 DESCRIPTION: IBM Cognos Server stores highly sensitive information in log files that could be read by a local user. CVSS Base Score: 6.2 CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120391 for the current score CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N) CVEID: CVE-2016-5983 DESCRIPTION: IBM WebSphere Application Server could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code with a serialized object from untrusted sources. CVSS Base Score: 7.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/116468 for the current score CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) CVEID: CVE-2016-0762 DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to process the user supplied password if the specified user name does not exist by the Realm implementation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct a timing attack and determine valid usernames on the system. CVSS Base Score: 5.3 CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/118407 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) CVEID: CVE-2016-5018 DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a Tomcat utility method to bypass a configured SecurityManager. CVSS Base Score: 4 CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/118406 for the current score CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N) CVEID: CVE-2016-6794 DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the system property replacement feature. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the SecurityManager and read system properties. CVSS Base Score: 4 CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/118405 for the current score CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N) CVEID: CVE-2016-6796 DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions. By modifying configuration parameters for the JSP Servlet, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass a configured SecurityManager. CVSS Base Score: 4 CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/118404 for the current score CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N) CVEID: CVE-2016-6797 DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat could allow a local attacker to gain unauthorized access to the system, caused by an error in the ResourceLinkFactory. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain access to arbitrary global JNDI resources. CVSS Base Score: 4 CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/118403 for the current score CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N) CVEID: CVE-2016-6816 DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to HTTP response splitting attacks, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and cause the server to return a split response, once the URL is clicked. This would allow the attacker to perform further attacks, such as Web cache poisoning or cross-site scripting, and possibly obtain sensitive information. CVSS Base Score: 6.1 CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/119158 for the current score CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) CVEID: CVE-2016-8735 DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an error in the JmxRemoteLifecycleListener. By sending specially crafted data to a JMX port, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges. CVSS Base Score: 7.3 CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/119157 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:L/A:L) CVEID: CVE-2016-5388 DESCRIPTION: Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to redirect HTTP traffic of CGI application, caused by the failure to protect applications from the presence of untrusted client data in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable. By using a specially-crafted Proxy header in a HTTP request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to redirect outbound HTTP traffic to arbitrary proxy server. This is also known as the "HTTPOXY" vulnerability. CVSS Base Score: 8.1 CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/115091 for the current score CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) Workarounds and Mitigations None Get Notified about Future Security Bulletins Subscribe to My Notifications to be notified of important product support alerts like this. References Complete CVSS v3 Guide On-line Calculator v3 Related information IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog Change History 10 April 2017: 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. 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