Tridium Technical Bulletin Alert: Please Update Your Niagara Software: QNX Vulnerabilities.

Summary
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the QNX operating system images distributed by Tridium.

The first vulnerability is related to a vulnerability that could allow a less privileged process to gain read access to privileged files.

The second is related to a vulnerability in the QNX procfs service that could allow a less privileged process to gain access to a chosen process’s address space.

The following supported platforms are impacted: 

• Niagara AX 3.8u4 (JACE 3e, JACE 6e, JACE 7, JACE-8000)
• Niagara 4.4u3 (JACE 3e, JACE 6e, JACE 7, JACE-8000)
• Niagara 4.7u1 (JACE-8000, Edge 10)

NOTE: Niagara Windows and Linux Supervisor installations are not impacted.

We have updated the QNX OS images to remove the vulnerability and recommend that users update to the versions identified below:

Recommended Action
Tridium has released new updates that mitigate these vulnerabilities.

These updates are available by contacting your sales support channel or by contacting the Tridium support team at support@tridium.com. 

It is important that all Niagara customers for all supported platforms update their systems with these releases to mitigate risk. If you have any questions, please contact your Tridium account manager or contact Customer Support via support@tridium.com.

Mitigation
In addition to updating your system, Tridium recommends that customers with affected products take the following protective steps:

• Review and validate the list of users who are authorized and who can authenticate to Niagara.
• Allow only trained and trusted persons to have physical access to the system, including devices that have connection to the system though the Ethernet port.
• If remote connections to the network are required, consider using a VPN or other means to ensure secure remote connections into the network where the system is located.

Cybersecurity is a priority at Tridium. We are dedicated to continuously improving the security of our products, and we will continue to update you as we release new security features, enhancements, and updates.

Appendix: About CVSS
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is an open standard for communicating the characteristics and severity of software vulnerabilities. The Base score represents the intrinsic qualities of a vulnerability. The Temporal score reflects the characteristics of a vulnerability that change over time. The Environmental score is an additional score that can be used by CVSS, but is not supplied as it will differ for each customer. The Base score has a value ranging from 0 to 10. The Temporal score has the same range and is a modification of the Base score due to current temporary factors. The severity of the score can be summarized as follows:

A CVSS score is also represented as a vector string, a compressed textual representation of the values used to derive the score.
Detailed information about CVSS can be found at http://www.first.org/cvss.

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