CA Technologies Support is alerting customers to a potential risk in CA 2E Web Option (C2WEB). A vulnerability exists that can allow an attacker to exploit an authentication weakness and execute a session prediction attack. The vulnerability is due to a predictable session token. An unauthenticated attacker can manipulate a session token to gain privileged access to a valid session. CA Technologies has issued fixes to address the vulnerability.
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CA20140218-01: Security Notice for CA 2E Web Option
Issued: February 18, 2014
CA Technologies Support is alerting customers to a potential risk in
CA 2E Web Option (C2WEB). A vulnerability exists that can allow an
attacker to exploit an authentication weakness and execute a session
prediction attack. The vulnerability, CVE-2014-1219, is due to a
predictable session token. An unauthenticated attacker can manipulate
a session token to gain privileged access to a valid session. CA
Technologies has issued fixes to address the vulnerability.
Risk Rating
High
Affected Platforms
IBM i
Affected Products
CA 2E Web Option r8.5
CA 2E Web Option r8.5 + PTF 1
CA 2E Web Option r8.6
CA 2E Web Option r8.6 + PTF B
Note that the vulnerable version reported by Portcullis, r8.1.2,
reached End of Service (EOS) on April 10, 2013 and is no longer
supported. Customers can find the CA 2E r8.1, r8.1 SP1 and r8.1 SP2
End of Service Announcement, dated April 10, 2012, on the CA Support
website.
Non-Affected Products
None (i.e. all supported versions of CA 2E Web Option are affected)
How to determine if the installation is affected
All supported versions of CA 2E Web Option are affected by this
vulnerability.
To determine if the fix for this vulnerability has been applied, refer
to the guidance below for each supported version.
CA 2E Web Option r8.5:
The existence of the data area YHFM55861 in PTF library YW8501254 will
indicate that this solution has been applied.
CA 2E Web Option r8.6:
The existence of the data area YHFM55865 in PTF library YW860B254 will
indicate that this solution has been applied.
Solution
CA Technologies has issued the following fixes to address the
vulnerability.
CA 2E Web Option r8.5:
RO67583
CA 2E Web Option r8.6:
RO67569
Workaround
None
References
CVE-2014-1219 - CA 2E Web Option Session Prediction Vulnerability
CA20140218-01: Security Notice for CA 2E Web Option
https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsbpldgpg
Acknowledgement
CVE-2014-1219 - Portcullis
Change History
Version 1.0: Initial Release
If additional information is required, please contact CA Technologies
Support at https://support.ca.com/.
If you discover a vulnerability in CA Technologies products, please
report your findings to the CA Technologies Product Vulnerability
Response Team.
support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=177782
Thanks and regards,
Ken Williams
CA Technologies
Director, Product Vulnerability Response Team
Ken.Williams@ca.com
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