Security Bulletin: IBM Cognos BI Server is affected by the following OpenSSL vulnerability: CVE-2014-0224

Summary

Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL that were reported on June 5, 2014 by the OpenSSL Project.

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0224

DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by the use of weak keying material in SSL/TLS clients and servers. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted handshake to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to decrypt and modify traffic.

CVSS Base Score: 5.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/93586&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

• IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 10.2.1.1
• IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 10.2.1
• IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 10.2
• IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 10.1.1
• IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 10.1
• IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 8.4.1

Remediation/Fixes

The recommended solution is to apply the fix for versions listed as soon as practical.

• Cognos BI 10.2.1.1 IF6, 10.2.1 IF6, and 10.2 IF9
• Cognos BI 10.1.1 IF7 and 10.1 IF8
• Cognos BI 8.4.1 IF6

Workarounds and Mitigations

None known.

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