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Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Incident Forensics is vulnerable to overly permissive CORS access policies (CVE-2016-9725)

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Summary

IBM QRadar Incident Forensics is affected by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) which is a mechanism that allows web sites to request resources from external sites, avoiding the need to duplicate them.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-9725
DESCRIPTION:
 IBM QRadar Incident Forensics allows for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), which is a mechanism that allows web sites to request resources from external sites, avoiding the need to duplicate them.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/119741 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

• IBM QRadar SIEM 7.2.n

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

IBM X-Force Ethical Hacking Team: Paul Ionescu, Warren Moynihan, Jonathan Fitz-Gerald, John Zuccato, Rodney Ryan, Chris Shepherd, Dmitriy Beryoza

Change History

28 February 2017

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21999539