Security Bulletin: IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module Account Information Exposure (CVE-2013-5211)

Summary

An interface on the IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM) may expose user account names and passwords that have been configured on that AMM.

Vulnerability Details

Abstract

Security vulnerability has been discovered in NTP.

Content

Vulnerability Details:

CVE ID:
CVE-201__3-5211

Description: Remote attacker can use a valid NTP server to cause a potential denial of service attack by forging (1) REQ_MON_GETLIST or (2) REQ_MON_GETLIST_1 requests to the server, causing the server to send a relatively large unsolicited amount of data to the IP address spoofed in the forged request.

CVSS Base Score: 5.0
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/90143&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Affected products and versions

These IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module Firmware versions are affected:

• v3.66D (BPET66D, BBET66D, BPEO66D)

This applies to the following hardware products:

• BladeCenter Advanced Management Module, Option 25R5778
• BladeCenter T Advanced Management Module, Option 32R0835
• IBM BladeCenter™-E: Type 1881, 7967, 8677
• IBM BladeCenter™-H: Types 1886, 7989, 8852
• IBM BladeCenter™-HT: Types 8740, 8750
• IBM BladeCenter™-S: Types 1948, 7779, 8886
• IBM BladeCenter™-T: Types 8720, 8730

Remediation:

Vendor Fix:

IBM recommends applying Advanced Management Module firmware version v3.66E (BBET66E) for BladeCenter T Chassis, v3.66E(BEO66E for BladeCenter OEM Chassis and v3.66E (BPET66E) for v3.66E (BPET66E) for All other IBM BladeCenter Chassis.

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None known

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
24 June 2014: Original Copy 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.

Note: 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.” IBM PROVIDES THE CVSS SCORES “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. CUSTOMERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF ANY ACTUAL OR POTENTIAL SECURITY VULNERABILITY.