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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                               ESB-2019.3037
         Information disclosure mitigation steps published for IBM
                            Infosphere products
                               9 August 2019

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:           IBM Infosphere Global Name Management
                   IBM Infosphere Identity Insight
Publisher:         IBM
Operating System:  UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
                   Windows
Impact/Access:     Access Confidential Data -- Unknown/Unspecified
Resolution:        Mitigation

Original Bulletin: 
   https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10958081
   https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10958079

Comment: This bulletin contains two (2) IBM security advisories.

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Security Bulletin: Information disclosure for IBM Infosphere Global Name
Management

Document information
Component: Enterprise Name Search
Software version: 5.0, 6.0
Operating system(s): Platform Independent
Reference #: 0958081
Modified date: 07 August 2019

Summary

There is a potential information disclosure vulnerability in Global Name
Management when using Enterprise Name Search. The information disclosure is due
to an XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability. Customers not using Enterprise
Name Search are not affected.

Affected Products and Versions

IBM InfoSphere Global Name Management 6.0
IBM InfoSphere Global Name Management 5.0

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Infosphere Global Name Management 6.0
To fix this vulnerability:

 1. Create the file <ENS install root>/java/jre/lib/jaxp.properties . Typically
    there is already a file named jaxp.properties.sample in that directory,
    with all of its contents commented out. Copy that file to a file named
    jaxp.properties, or create an empty file with that name. Then append the
    following lines to the end of the file:

# For security, do not allow external DTDs, schemas, or stylesheets
javax.xml.accessExternalDTD=""
javax.xml.accessExternalSchema=""
javax.xml.accessExternalStylesheet="" 


IBM Infosphere Global Name Management 5.0
To fix this vulnerability:

 1. Download and install IBM Infosphere Global Name Management 5.0.0.1 iFix008
    or greater from IBM Fix Central.

Acknowledgement

Reported by Goblue.

Change History

09 August 2019: original document published

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Security Bulletin: Information disclosure for IBM Infosphere Identity Insight

Document information
Software version: 8.1, 9.0
Operating system(s): Platform Independent
Reference #: 0958079
Modified date: 07 August 2019

Summary

There is a potential information disclosure vulnerability in Identity Insight
when using web services. The information disclosure is due to an XML external
entity (XXE) vulnerability.

Affected Products and Versions

IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight 9.0
IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight 8.1

Remediation/Fixes

IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight 9.0
To fix this vulnerability:

 1. Create the file <Identity Insight install root>/java/jre/lib directory/
    jaxp.properties . Typically there is already a file named
    jaxp.properties.sample in that directory, with all of its contents
    commented out. Copy that file to a file named jaxp.properties, or create an
    empty file with that name. Then append the following lines to the end of
    the file:

# For security, do not allow external DTDs, schemas, or stylesheets
javax.xml.accessExternalDTD=""
javax.xml.accessExternalSchema=""
javax.xml.accessExternalStylesheet="" 

IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight 8.1
To fix this vulnerability:

 1. Download and install InfoSphere Identity Insight 8.1.0.4 iFix005 or greater
    from IBM Fix Central.

Acknowledgement

Reported by Goblue.

Change History

09 August 2019: original document published

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