CA20190904-01: Security Notice for CA Common Services Distributed Intelligence Architecture (DIA)

Kevin Kotas <kevin.kotas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 6 Sep 2019 17:21:29 -0400

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CA20190904-01: Security Notice for CA Common Services Distributed
Intelligence Architecture (DIA)

Issued: September 4th, 2019
Last Updated: September 4th, 2019

CA Technologies, A Broadcom Company, is alerting customers to a
potential risk with CA Common Services in the Distributed
Intelligence Architecture (DIA) component. A vulnerability exists,
CVE-2019-13656, that can allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary
code. CA published solutions to address the vulnerabilities and
recommends that all affected customers implement these solutions
immediately.

Risk Rating

High

Platform(s)

All supported platforms

Affected Products

CA Common Components DIA

CA Technologies products that bundle this software include:
CA Client Automation 14 and later versions
CA Workload Automation AE 11.3.5 and 11.3.6

How to determine if the installation is affected

Customers should review the Solution section to determine whether the
fix is present.

CA Workload Automation Autosys:

The Distributed Intelligence Architecture (DIA) that installs with
the 11.3.5 and 11.3.6 C3 DVD is vulnerable.

Solution

CA published the following solutions to address the vulnerabilities.
Fixes are available on the CA support site.

CA Client Automation:

Windows
Solution: SO09605

Linux
Solution: SO09633

CA Workload Automation Autosys:

The following are the fixes published by the Workload Automation
Autosys Product team for the vulnerability CVE-2019-13656 reported
against Distributed Intelligence Architecture (DIA) shipped with C3
DVD.

Windows
Solution: SO09111

Linux
Solution: SO09057

HP-UX
Solution: SO09086

Solaris
Solution: SO09084

AIX
Solution: SO09085

Patch Validation

The script applypatch.bat for Windows and applypatch.sh for Linux and
Unix platforms when run should not produce any errors in its console
output. The script starts the NSM services at the end of the patch
application process. A successful patch application is manifested in
the form of all services coming up successfully.

References

CVE-2019-13656 - Ca Common Services remote code execution

Acknowledgement

CVE-2019-13656 - Fredrik Ravne, Oslo Boers

Change History

Version 1.0: Initial Release

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to Proactive Notifications on the support site.

Customers who require additional information about this notice may
contact CA Technologies Support at https://casupport.broadcom.com/

To report a suspected vulnerability in a CA Technologies product,
please send a summary to CA Technologies Product Vulnerability
Response at ca.psirt <AT> broadcom.com

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Kevin Kotas
CA Product Security Incident Response Team

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