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Security Bulletin: Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server (CVE-2014-0873)

Created by Lillian Conway-Rioux on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/240971
240971

Security Bulletin


Summary

The IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server User Interfaces are vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.

Vulnerability Details

CVE ID: CVE-2014-0873

DESCRIPTION: Due to insufficient safeguards against cross-site request forgery in the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server (MDM) Data Stewardship, Business Admin or Product user interfaces an attacker can trick a legitimate user into opening a URL that results in an action being taken as that user, potentially without the knowledge of that user. Any actions taken require the user already be authenticated or to authenticate separately as part of the attack.

CVSS:
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90994 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: None

Affected Products and Versions

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server versions 8.5, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 10.0, and 10.1

Remediation/Fixes

Binary fixes are provided that will resolve the issue. Furthermore, as source code for these components is also provided, instructions on how to manually apply the fixes to any customizations to the user interfaces is given in the Readme.html with each iFix package.


Vendor Fixes:

For IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server version 8.5
· Apply iFix 8.5.0.82

For IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server version 9.0.1
· Apply iFix 9.0.1.38

For IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server version 9.0.2
· Apply iFix 9.0.2.35
.
For IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server version 10.0
· Apply iFix 10.0.0.0.26

For IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server version 10.1
· Apply iFix 10.1.0.0.15

Instructions on how to install the fix or to manually modify the code if you have customized the user interfaces are provided in the Readme.html with each iFix package.
The source code is also provided within the iFix in a *_src.zip file for each of the user interfaces.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None known

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

2014-Mar-17: Original version published

*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.

Disclaimer

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Document Information

Modified date:
27 April 2022

UID

swg21666462

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