ESA-2015-132: EMC Documentum D2 Fail Open Vulnerability

ESA-2015-132: EMC Documentum D2 Fail Open Vulnerability

EMC Identifier: ESA-2015-132

CVE Identifier: CVE-2015-4537 

Severity Rating: CVSS v2 Base Score: 8.5 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Affected products: 
• EMC Documentum D2 4.2 and earlier

Summary: 

EMC Documentum D2 contains fail open vulnerability that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise D2.

Details:  
Lockbox is a component of Documentum D2 which securely stores passwords in an encrypted file. Removing the file D2.Lockbox from the Documentum Content Server and/or application server causes Documentum D2 to fallback to using a hard coded passphrase to encrypt sensitive admin tickets. An attacker can easily recover this hard coded password and obtain admin tickets by decompiling Documentum D2 jar files.

Resolution: 
The following versions of the product contain the fix for this issue:
• EMC Documentum D2 4.5 and subsequent patch releases
EMC recommends all customers to upgrade at the earliest opportunity.

Link to remedies:

Registered EMC Online support customers can download software from https://emc.subscribenet.com/.

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