MitM attack in IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring



Published: 2022-07-22
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2021-35550
CWE-ID CWE-300
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
Subscribe 		IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring
Server applications / Other server solutions

Vendor IBM Corporation

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack

EUVDB-ID: #VU57487

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1:

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-35550

CWE-ID: CWE-300 - Channel Accessible by Non-Endpoint ('Man-in-the-Middle')

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to the JSSE component in Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition offers cipher suites in the wrong way, which causes weaker cipher suites to be offered ahead of the strong ones. A remote non-authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain access to sensitive information.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring: 2.0 - 2.3 Fixpack 4

CPE2.3 External links

http://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6606307

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?



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