Security Bulletin: IBM System Networking Switch Center is affected by a Jsch vulnerability (CVE-2016-5725)

Summary

A vulnerability in Jsch affects IBM System Networking Switch Center. IBM System Networking Switch Center has addressed the vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

A vulnerability in Jsch affects IBM System Networking Switch Center. IBM System Networking Switch Center has addressed the vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2016-5725

Description: JSch could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request to the implementation for recursive sftp-get containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to download the malicious files outside the client download base directory.

CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/117122&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes:

Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central:
<http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;.

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None

References:

• Complete CVSS v3 Guide
• On-line Calculator v3

Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog
Lenovo Product Security Advisories

Acknowledgement

None

Change History
26 July 2017: 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.

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