Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in SSL affect IBM DataPower Gateways (CVE-2015-3197 )

Summary

SSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on January 28, 2016 by the OpenSSL Project. IBM DataPower Gateways has addressed the applicable CVE.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-3197 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks, caused by an error related to the negotiation of disabled SSLv2 ciphers by malicious SSL/TLS clients. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks.
CVSS Base Score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110235 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM DataPower Gateways appliances all versions through 7.0.0.12, 7.1.0.9, 7.2.0.5 and 7.5.0.1.

Remediation/Fixes

Fix is available in versions 7.0.0.13, 7.1.0.10, 7.2.0.6 and 7.5.0.2. Refer to APAR IT14230 for URLs to download the fix.

You should verify applying this fix does not cause any compatibility issues.

_For DataPower customers using versions 6.x and earlier versions, IBM recommends upgrading to a fixed, supported version/release/platform of the product. _

Workarounds and Mitigations

None