Security Compliance

Sweet32 and SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) - CVE-2016-2183 and CVE-2016-6329

Sweet32 and patching vulnerabilities in SolarWinds ARM (CVE-2016-2183 and CVE-2016-6329).

First published date

11/27/2019 10:39 AM

Last published date

1/9/2020 3:17 PM

Overview

Sweet32 is a vulnerability in 3DES-CBC ciphers that attacks 64-bit block ciphers in TLS and OpenVPN.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvenam...=CVE-2016-2183 (© 2018 The MITRE Corporation, available at http://cve.mitre.org, obtained on November 14, 2018)

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvenam...=CVE-2016-6329 (© 2018 The MITRE Corporation, available at http://cve.mitre.org, obtained on November 14, 2018)

Product section

Access Rights Manager

Cause

3rd part product vulnerability.

Resolution

According to tests performed against ARM 2019.4 there is no impact on basic product functionality after attempt to mitigate this vulnerability by disabling 3DES cipher suites.

Follow steps below to mitigate vulnerabilities:
  1. Log in to the ARM server as an administrator.
  2. Upgrade to ARM 2019.4 to fix vulnerability of RabbitMQ.
  3. If you run the web components on a different server, log into this server as an administrator.
  4. Download and install IIS Crypto from Nartac. (© 2013 Nartac Software, available at https://www.nartac.com/, obtained on Feb 3, 2017.)
  5. Open the tool.
  6. Select Schannel, and clear the Triple DES 168 selection. This will disable the cipher. Please make sure that no other web application installed on the same IIS requires this.
  7. Apply changes and restart the computer.
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