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Vulnerability Countermeasure Information Database JVN iPedia Registration Status [2019 1st Quarter (Jan. - Mar.)]

May 29, 2019
IT Security Center

1. 2019 1st Quarter: Vulnerability Countermeasure Information Database JVN iPedia Registration Status

The vulnerability countermeasure information database JVN iPedia (https://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/) is endeavoring to become a comprehensive vulnerability database where vulnerability information is aggregated for easy access for IT users. JVN iPedia collects and/or translates the vulnerability information published by 1) domestic software developers, 2) JVN (*1), a vulnerability information portal run by JPCERT/CC and IPA, and 3) NVD (*2), a vulnerability database run by NIST (*3). JVN iPedia has been making vulnerability information available to the public since April 25, 2007.


1-1. Vulnerabilities Registered in 2019/1Q

~ JVN iPedia now stores 97,444 vulnerabilities ~

The summary of the vulnerability information registered to the Japanese version of JVN iPedia during the 1st quarter of 2019 (January 1 to March 31, 2019) is shown in the table below. As of the end of March 2019, the total number of vulnerabilities stored in JVN iPedia is 97,444 (Table 1-1, Figure 1-1).

As for the JVN iPedia English version, the total number of vulnerabilities stored is 2,018 as shown in the lower half of the Table 1-1.


Table 1-1. Vulnerabilities Registered to JVN iPedia during 1st Quarter of 2019
  Information Source Registered Cases Cumulative Cases
Japanese Version Domestic Product Developers 3 cases 213 cases
JVN 76 cases 8,437 cases
NVD 4,691 cases 88,884 cases
Total 4,770 cases 97,444 cases
English Version Domestic Product Developers 3 cases 213 cases
JVN 18 cases 1,805 cases
Total 21 cases 2,018 cases

2. Details on JVN iPedia Registered Data

2-1. Types of Vulnerabilities Reported

Figure 2-1 shows the number of vulnerabilities newly added to JVN iPedia during the 1st quarter of 2019, sorted by the CWE vulnerability types.

The type of the vulnerabilities reported most in the 1st quarter is CWE-79 (Cross-Site Scripting) with 617 cases, followed by CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation) with 430, CWE-119 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (Buffer Errors)) with 407, CWE-200 (Information Exposure) with 317, CWE-284 (Improper Access Control) with 311.

CWE-79, the most reported vulnerability type in this quarter, could allow attackers to display false webpages and/or steal information.

Software developers need to make sure to mitigate vulnerability from the planning and design phase of software development. IPA provides tools and guidelines, such as "How to Secure Your Website" (*4), "Secure Programing Guide" (*5) and "AppGoat" (*6), a hands-on venerability learning tool, for website developers and operators to build secure websites.

2-2. Severity of Vulnerabilities Reported

Figure 2-2 shows the yearly change in the CVSSv2 rating scale based severity of vulnerabilities registered to JVN iPedia.

As for the vulnerabilities added to JVN iPedia in 2019, 24.2 percent are "level III" (7.0 - 10.0), 64.3 percent are "level ll" (4.0 – 6.9) and 11.5 percent are "level I" (0.0 – 3.9). This means 88.5 percent of all vulnerabilities registered are level II or higher, which are potentially critical enough to cause damage like information exposure or data modification.

Figure 2-3 shows the yearly change in the CVSSv3 rating scale based severity of vulnerabilities registered to JVN iPedia.

As for the vulnerabilities added to JVN iPedia in 2019, 15.3 percent are "Critical" (9.0 – 10.0), 42.3 percent are "High" (7.0 – 8.9), 41.5 percent are "Medium" (4.0 – 6.9) and 0.9 percent are "Low" (0.1 – 3.9).

To avoid threats posed by the known vulnerabilities, both product developers and IT users should pay close attention to vulnerability disclosure and update software they use to a fixed version or apply a security patch as soon as possible when they become available. IT users can check vulnerabilities newly published on JVN iPedia in RSS and XML format (*7) as well.

2-3. Types of Software Reported with Vulnerability

Figure 2-4 shows the yearly change in the type of software reported with vulnerability. Application vulnerabilities have been published most, accounting for 75.9 percent (3,621 out of 4,770) of the 2019 total.

Figure 2-5 shows the yearly change in the number of JVN iPedia-stored vulnerabilities in industrial control systems (ICS) used in critical infrastructure sectors. As of March 2019, the total of 1,831 ICS vulnerabilities have been registered.

2-4. Products Reported with Vulnerability

Table 2-1 lists the top 20 software whose vulnerabilities were most registered to JVN iPedia during the 1st quarter (January to March) of 2019.

In this quarter, Debian GNU/Linux is the 1st rank which continued from the previous quarter (2018 Q4). Debian GNU/Linux is provided by integrating the OS and over 50,000 software packages so that Debian GNU/Linux fix the vulnerabilities according to the fix of the vulnerabilities of those packages. Accordingly, it is thought that the number of registered Debian GNU/Linux continues to be high (*8).

Besides those in the top 20 list, JVN iPedia stores and offers vulnerability information about a variety of software. IPA hopes software developers and users will make good use of JVN iPedia to efficiently check vulnerability information and take necessary action in a timely manner (*9).


Table 2-1. Top 20 Software Products Vulnerabilities Were Most Registered [Jan. – Mar. 2019]
RankCategoryProduct Name (Vendor) Number of
Vulnerabilities
Registered
1 OS Debian GNU/Linux (Debian) 401
2 OS Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (Red Hat) 246
3 OS Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (Red Hat) 237
4 OS Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (Red Hat) 236
5 Browser Google Chrome (Google) 203
6 OS Ubuntu (Canonical) 186
7 OS Android (Google) 167
8 Firmware Qualcomm firmware (Qualcomm) (*10) 113
9 PDF Viewer Foxit Reader (Foxit Software Inc) 108
10 PDF Viewer/Editor Foxit PhantomPDF (Foxit Software Inc) 94
11 PDF Viewer/Editor Adobe Acrobat (Adobe Systems) 92
11 PDF Viewer Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (Adobe Systems) 92
11 PDF Viewer/Editor Adobe Acrobat DC (Adobe Systems) 92
14 OS Microsoft Windows 10 (Microsoft) 44
14 OS Microsoft Windows Server (Microsoft) 44
16 Video Surveillance Software ZoneMinder (ZoneMinder) 41
17 OS Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (Microsoft) 39
18 OS Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (Microsoft) 38
19 Browser Mozilla Firefox (Mozilla Foundation) 36
20 OS Linux Kernel (Kernel.org) 33

3. Most Accessed Vulnerability Countermeasure Information

Table 3-1 lists the top 20 most accessed vulnerability information in JVN iPedia during the 1st quarter of 2019 (January to March).

Of the vulnerability countermeasure information ranked high in this quarter, the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 13th rank were collected from domestic product developers. Except for the above and the 5th rank, 15 are vulnerability countermeasure information released on the Vulnerability Countermeasure Information Portal Site JVN. Those products registered in the vulnerability countermeasure information have many domestic users and receive a lot of attention so that the number of access the relevant web site tend to increase.


Table 3-1. Top 20 Most Accessed Vulnerability Countermeasure Information in JVN iPedia [Jan. – Mar. 2019]
NoIDTitleCVSSv2
Base
Score
CVSSv3
Base
Score
Date
Public
Access
Count
1 JVNDB-2019-000001 WordPress plugin "spam-byebye" vulnerable to cross-site scripting 2.6 6.1 2019/1/10 6,672
2 JVNDB-2018-000137 GROWI vulnerable to cross-site scripting 4.0 5.4 2018/12/26 6,548
3 JVNDB-2018-010851 Clickjacking Vulnerability in Hitachi Automation Director 4.3 4.3 2018/12/26 6,379
4 JVNDB-2019-000003 HOUSE GATE App for iOS vulnerable to directory traversal 4.3 4.7 2019/1/24 6,354
5 JVNDB-2014-007972 Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability in OpenKM (in Japanese only) 3.5 - 2015/3/13 5,978
6 JVNDB-2019-001095 Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability in Hitachi Device Manager 4.0 4.7 2019/1/22 5,717
7 JVNDB-2018-000135 WordPress plugin "Google XML Sitemaps" vulnerable to cross-site scripting 4.0 4.8 2018/12/25 5,495
8 JVNDB-2018-000134 PgpoolAdmin fails to restrict access permissions 7.5 9.8 2018/12/21 5,448
9 JVNDB-2019-001094 Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Hitachi Command Suite and Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor 5.0 5.3 2019/1/22 5,420
10 JVNDB-2018-000136 Installer of Mapping Tool may insecurely load Dynamic Link Libraries 6.8 7.8 2018/12/25 5,237
11 JVNDB-2018-000133 cordova-plugin-ionic-webview vulnerable to path traversal 4.3 4.7 2018/12/21 5,199
12 JVNDB-2019-000006 POWER EGG vulnerability where EL expression may be executed 7.5 7.3 2019/2/5 5,041
13 JVNDB-2018-010027 Problem with directory permissions in JP1/Operations Analytics 3.5 4.9 2018/12/4 5,009
14 JVNDB-2018-000129 Multiple vulnerabilities in i-FILTER 4.3 6.1 2018/12/7 4,992
15 JVNDB-2018-000132 Multiple vulnerabilities in Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation Home gateway 8.3 8.8 2018/12/19 4,890
16 JVNDB-2018-000001 Lhaplus vulnerable to improper verification when expanding ZIP64 archives 4.3 3.3 2018/1/11 4,801
17 JVNDB-2019-000010 azure-umqtt-c vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) 5.0 7.5 2019/2/20 4,759
18 JVNDB-2019-000004 UNLHA32.DLL, UNARJ32.DLL, LHMelting and LMLzh32.DLL may insecurely load Dynamic Link Libraries 6.8 7.8 2019/1/31 4,699
19 JVNDB-2018-000124 Multiple vulnerabilities in RICOH Interactive Whiteboard 10.0 9.8 2018/11/27 4,666
20 JVNDB-2018-000131 Multiple vulnerabilities in Aterm WF1200CR and Aterm WG1200CR 5.8 8.8 2018/12/14 4,662

Table 3-2 lists the top 5 most accessed vulnerability information among those reported by domestic product developers.


Table 3-2. Top 5 Most Accessed Vulnerabilities Reported by Domestic Product Developers [Jan. - Mar. 2019]
NoIDTitleCVSSv2
Base
Score
CVSSv3
Base
Score
Date
Public
Access
Count
1 JVNDB-2018-010851 Clickjacking Vulnerability in Hitachi Automation Director 4.3 4.3 2018/12/26 6,379
2 JVNDB-2019-001095 Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability in Hitachi Device Manager 4.0 4.7 2019/1/22 5,717
3 JVNDB-2019-001094 Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Hitachi Command Suite and Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor 5.0 5.3 2019/1/22 5,420
4 JVNDB-2018-010027 Problem with directory permissions in JP1/Operations Analytics 3.5 4.9 2018/12/4 5,009
5 JVNDB-2018-009328 Multiple Vulnerabilities in JP1/VERITAS 10.0 9.8 2018/11/15 4,521

Note 1) Color Code for CVSSv2 Severity Rating Scale

CVSS Base Score = 0.0~3.9
Severity = Level I (Low)
CVSS Base Score = 4.0~6.9
Severity = Level II (Medium)
CVSS Base Score = 7.0~10.0
Severity = Level III (High)

Note 2) Color Code for CVSSv3 Severity Rating Scale

CVSS Base Score =
0.1~3.9
Severity = Low
CVSS Base Score =
4.0~6.9
Severity = Medium
CVSS Base Score =
7.0~8.9
Severity = High
CVSS Base Score =
9.0~10.0
Severity = Critical

Note 3) Color Code for Published Date

Published in 2017 or before Published in 2018 Published in 2019

Footnotes

(*1) Japan Vulnerability Notes: A portal for vulnerability countermeasure information including information on vendor response to the reported vulnerabilities and security support. Operated in the collaboration of IPA and JPCERT/CC.
https://jvn.jp/en/

(*2) National Vulnerability Database: A vulnerability database operated by NIST.
https://nvd.nist.gov/home.cfm

(*3) National Institute of Standards and Technology: A U.S federal agency that develops and promotes measurement, standards and technology.
https://www.nist.gov/

(*4) How to Secure Your Websites
https://www.ipa.go.jp/security/vuln/websecurity.html (latest version in Japanese only )

(*5) Secure Programing Guide
https://www.ipa.go.jp/security/awareness/vendor/programming/ (in Japanese only)

(*6) AppGoat
https://www.ipa.go.jp/security/vuln/appgoat/ (in Japanese only)

(*7) IPA Data Feeds
https://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/feed/ (in Japanese only)

(*8) About Debian
https://www.debian.org/intro/about.html

(*9) IPA Technical Watch - Daily Practice Guide: Tips on Vulnerability Management
The guide gives tips on how to efficiently and efficiently collect and leverage vulnerability information.
https://www.ipa.go.jp/security/technicalwatch/20150331.html (in Japanese only)

(*10) 'Qualcomm Firmware' contains various firmware of Qualcomm processors such as SD and MSM series.

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