Do these Java Vulnerabilities apply to DX NetOps servers?

Products

• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

The following vulnerabilities were found. How do they impact the DX NetOps Performance Management environment?

Do these Java vulnerabilities impact the DX NetOps Performance Management Portal web UI server?

Do these Java vulnerabilities impact the DX NetOps Performance Management Data Aggregator server(s)?

Do these Java vulnerabilities impact the DX NetOps Performance Management Fault Tolerant Data Aggregator server?

Do these Java vulnerabilities impact the DX NetOps Performance Management Data Collector server(s)?

Do these Java vulnerabilities impact the DX NetOps Performance Management Data Repository database server(s)?

Reported Vulnerabilities

Description: The version of Oracle (formerly Sun) Java SE or Java for Business installed on the remote host is prior to 7 Update 301, 8 Update 291, 11 Update 11, or 16 Update 1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the July 2021 CPU advisory:

• Vulnerability in the Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Networking). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u301, 8u291, 11.0.11, 16.0.1; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.2 and 21.1.0. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized read access to a subset of Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible data. This vulnerability applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets, that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. This vulnerability does not apply to Java deployments, typically in servers, that load and run only trusted code (e.g., code installed by an administrator). (CVE-2021-2341)
• Vulnerability in the Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Library). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u301, 8u291, 11.0.11, 16.0.1; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.2 and 21.1.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible data. This vulnerability applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets, that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. This vulnerability does not apply to Java deployments, typically in servers, that load and run only trusted code (e.g., code installed by an administrator). (CVE-2021-2369)
• Vulnerability in the Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Hotspot). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 8u291, 11.0.11, 16.0.1; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.2 and 21.1.0. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. This vulnerability applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets, that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. This vulnerability does not apply to Java deployments, typically in servers, that load and run only trusted code (e.g., code installed by an administrator). (CVE-2021-2388)
• Vulnerability in the Java SE product of Oracle Java SE (component: JNDI). The supported version that is affected is Java SE: 7u301. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Java SE. This vulnerability applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets, that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. This vulnerability can also be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g., through a web service which supplies data to the APIs. (CVE-2021-2432)

Environment

All supported DX NetOps Performance Management releases

Resolution

The DX NetOps Performance Management servers do not utilize Java JNLP code.

As a result none of these vulnerabilities apply to the DX NetOps Performance Management component server systems including:

• DX NetOps Performance Management Portal web UI server
• DX NetOps Performance Management Data Aggregator server(s)
• DX NetOps Performance Management Fault Tolerant Data Aggregator server
• DX NetOps Performance Management Data Collector server(s)
• DX NetOps Performance Management Data Repository database server(s)

Additional Information

The Spectrum OneClick client application does utilize Java JNLP code. It is the only part of the DX NetOps product suite that does so.

According to Knowledge Base article Java Vulnerabilities CVE-2021-2341, CVE-2021-2369, CVE-2021-2388, CVE-2021-2432 the vulnerabilities will get resolved with the r21.2.2 Spectrum release.