Security Bulletin: XML External Entity Processing in Castor might affect IBM Business Process Manager (CVE-2014-3004)

2018-06-1507:02:08

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EPSS

0.016

Percentile

87.6%

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Summary

An XML External Entity Processing vulnerability has been reported for the Castor open source library that is used in IBM Business Process Manager (BPM).

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3004

Description: Castor Library could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. By sending specially-crafted XML data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
CVSS Temporal Score: <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/93519> for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

- IBM Business Process Manager Standard V7.5.x, 8.0.x 8.5.x
IBM Business Process Manager Express V7.5.x, 8.0.x 8.5.x
IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V7.5.x, 8.0.x 8.5.x

Remediation/Fixes

Install the interim fix for APAR JR51672 as appropriate for your current IBM Business Process Manager version.

* [IBM Business Process Manager Express](&lt;http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=ibm%7EWebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/IBM+Business+Process+Manager+Express&release=All&platform=All&function=aparId&apars=JR51672&gt;)
* [IBM Business Process Manager Standard](&lt;http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=ibm%7EWebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/IBM+Business+Process+Manager+Standard&release=All&platform=All&function=aparId&apars=JR51672&gt;)
* [IBM Business Process Manager Advanced](&lt;http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=ibm%7EWebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/IBM+Business+Process+Manager+Advanced&release=All&platform=All&function=aparId&apars=JR51672&gt;)