Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in BeanShell affects IBM Emptoris Strategic Supply Management. (CVE-2016-2510).

Summary

A BeanShell vulnerability for handling Java object deserialization was addressed by IBM Emptoris Strategic Supply Management Platform, IBM Contract Management and IBM Program Management products.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-2510**
DESCRIPTION:** BeanShell could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the deserialization of untrusted data using Java serialization or XStream. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability deserialize data and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111295 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Emptoris Contract Management 9.5 through 10.1
IBM Emptoris Program Management 10.0.0 through 10.1
IBM Emptoris Strategic Supply Management 10.0.0 through 10.1

Remediation/Fixes

The remediation to this issue involves applying the fixes for the affected IBM Emptoris products indicated below as soon as practical.

Note: Please check Fix Central for additional versions that may be available for specific Fix Packs in 10.0.2.x
10.0.4.x| Apply Interim fix -> IBM Emptoris BeanShell iFix
OR
Apply the following iFixes

IBM recommends that you review your entire environment to identify vulnerable releases of the open-source BeanShell and take appropriate mitigation and remediation actions.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

29 Apr 2016: 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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