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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Diffie-Hellman ciphers affects IMS™ Enterprise Suite: SOAP Gateway (CVE-2015-4000)

## Summary

The Logjam Attack on TLS(Transport Layer Security) connections using the Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange protocol affects IMS™ Enterprise Suite: SOAP Gateway.

## Vulnerability Details

**CVEID:** [_CVE-2015-4000_]()**
DESCRIPTION:** The TLS protocol could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to properly convey a DHE_EXPORT ciphersuite choice. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to force a downgrade to 512-bit export-grade cipher. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to recover the session key as well as modify the contents of the traffic. This vulnerability is commonly referred to as “Logjam”.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See [_https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/103294_]() 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

The SOAP Gateway component of the IMS™ Enterprise Suite Versions 3.1 and earlier.

## Workarounds and Mitigations

**Java 7 and Java 8 Mitigation:**

1. Disabling DH and DHE cipher suites. The can be achieved by adding the DH and DHE cipher suites to the list of disabled algorithms defined by the jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms security property in java.security file

SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256

SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256

SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA

SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA

SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256

SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256

SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA

SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA

SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384

SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384

SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256

SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256

SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA

SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA

SSL_DH_anon_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384

SSL_DH_anon_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256

SSL_DH_anon_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256

SSL_DH_anon_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA

SSL_DH_anon_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256

SSL_DH_anon_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA

SSL_DH_anon_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA

SSL_DH_anon_WITH_RC4_128_MD5

SSL_DHE_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA

SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA

SSL_DH_anon_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA

SSL_DHE_DSS_WITH_RC4_128_SHA

SSL_DHE_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA

SSL_DHE_DSS_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA

SSL_DH_anon_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA

You should verify applying this configuration change does not cause any compatibility issues. IBM recommends that you review your entire environment to identify other areas where you have enabled the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol used in TLS and take appropriate mitigation and remediation actions.

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### References

[Complete CVSS v2 Guide]( “Link resides outside of ibm.com” )
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## Related Information

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[IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog]()

*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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