Security Bulletin: IBM Sterling B2B Integrator vulnerable due to Apache Santuario XML Security for Java (CVE-2013-4517, CVE-2013-2172)

Summary

IBM Sterilng B2B Integrator has addressed security vulnrabilities in Apache Santuario XML Security for Java.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2013-4517
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Santuario XML Security for Java is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out of memory error when allowing Document Type Definitions (DTDs). A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability via XML Signature transforms to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/89891 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVEID:CVE-2013-2172
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache Santuario XML Security for Java could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by the failure to restrict canonicalization algorithms to be applied to the CanonicalizationMethod parameter. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to spoof the XML signature.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/85323 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

The version 6.0.3.7 , 6.1.0.5 and 6.1.1.1 are available on Fix Central. The IIM version of 6.1.2.0 is available in IBM Passport Advantage. The container version of 6.1.2.0 is available in IBM Entitled Registry with following tags.

cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-b2bi/b2bi:6.1.2.0 for IBM Sterling B2B Integrator
cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-sfg/sfg:6.1.2.0 for IBM Sterling File Gateway

Workarounds and Mitigations

None