IBM Security Bulletin: TLS padding vulnerability affects IBM PureApplication System (CVE-2014-8730) - United States  SECURITY BULLETIN

SUMMARY
 Transport Layer Security (TLS) padding vulnerability via a POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) like attack affects IBM PureApplication System. 

VULNERABILITY DETAILS
CVEID: CVE-2014-8730 [http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8730]
DESCRIPTION: IBM PureApplication Server bundles IBM HTTP Server, which could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to check the contents of the padding bytes when using CBC cipher suites of some TLS implementations. A remote user with the ability to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack could exploit this vulnerability via a POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) like attack to decrypt sensitive information and calculate the plain text of secure connections.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99216 [https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99216] for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

AFFECTED PRODUCTS AND VERSIONS

This vulnerability affects all versions and releases of IBM HTTP Server (powered by Apache) component in all editions of WebSphere Application Server and bundling products. IBM PureApplication Server bundles WebSphere Application Server in its Web Application Pattern.

IBM PureApplication System V1.1
IBM PureApplication System V2.0
IBM PureApplication System V2.1

REMEDIATION/FIXES
The solution is to apply an update to the Web Application pattern type included in IBM PureApplication System:

IBM PureApplication System V2.1 

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 * http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/downloadFixes?parent=PureSystems&product=ibm/WebSphere/PureApplication+System&release=2.1.0.1&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=webapp-2.0.4.1-sys&includeSupersedes=0
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 * http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/downloadFixes?parent=PureSystems&product=ibm/WebSphere/PureApplication+System&release=2.1.0.1&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=webapp-1.0.4.1-sys&includeSupersedes=0


IBM PureApplication System V2.0 

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 * http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/downloadFixes?parent=PureSystems&product=ibm/WebSphere/PureApplication+System&release=2.0.0.1&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=webapp-2.0.2.1-vaea-20150610&includeSupersedes=0


IBM PureApplication System V1.1 and earlier: 

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You should verify applying this fix does not cause any compatibility issues. WORKAROUNDS AND MITIGATIONS
None

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REFERENCES
Complete CVSS v2 Guide [http://www.first.org/cvss/v2/guide] 
On-line Calculator v2 [http://nvd.nist.gov/CVSS-v2-Calculator] 

RELATED INFORMATION
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal [http://www.ibm.com/security/secure-engineering/bulletins.html] 
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog [http://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt] 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
None 

CHANGE HISTORY
 19 June 2015: 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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Answer: CVEID: CVE-2014-8730 [http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8730]
DESCRIPTION: IBM PureApplication Server bundles IBM HTTP Server, which could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to check the contents of the padding bytes when using CBC cipher suites of some TLS implementations. A remote user with the ability to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack could exploit this vulnerability via a POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) like attack to decrypt sensitive information and calculate the plain text of secure connections.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99216 [https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99216] for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)