Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in MD5 Signature and Hash Algorithm affects IBM Control Center (CVE-2015-7575)

Summary

The MD5 “SLOTH” vulnerability on TLS 1.2 affects IBM Control Center.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-7575**
DESCRIPTION:** The TLS protocol could allow weaker than expected security caused by a collision attack when using the MD5 hash function for signing a ServerKeyExchange message during a TLS handshake. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to impersonate a TLS server and obtain credentials.
CVSS Base Score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109415 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Control Center 6.0.0.0 through 6.0.0.1 iFix03
IBM Sterling Control Center 5.4.2 through 5.4.2.1 iFix06
IBM Sterling Control Center 5.4.1 through 5.4.1.0 iFix03
IBM Sterling Control Center 5.4.0 through 5.4.0.1 iFix04
IBM Sterling Control Center 5.3.0 through 5.3.0.4 iFix02
IBM Sterling Control Center 5.2.0 through 5.2.12

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF|Fix|How to acquire fix
—|—|—|—
IBM Control Center| 6.0.0.1| iFix04| Fix Central - 6.0.0.1
Sterling Control Center| 5.4.2.1| iFix07| Fix Central - 5.4.2.1
Sterling Control Center| 5.4.1| APAR IT13944| Contact Support and request the fix package to be published for you on the ECuRep server.
Sterling Control Center| 5.4.0| APAR IT13944| Contact Support and request the fix package to be published for you on the ECuRep server.
Sterling Control Center| 5.3| APAR IT13944| Contact Support and request the fix package to be published for you on the ECuRep server.
Sterling Control Center| 5.2| APAR IT13944| Contact Support and request the fix package to be published for you on the ECuRep server.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None