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Security Bulletin: IBM UrbanCode Release is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling potentially allowing an attacker to conduct XSS attacks (CVE-2014-0227)

Created by Brian Young on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/263007
263007

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM UrbanCode Release consumes Apache Tomcat which is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted request in a malformed chunked header to the Web server to cause multiple processing conflicts on the servers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-0227

Description: IBM UrbanCode Release consumes Apache Tomcat which is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted request in a malformed chunked header to the Web server to cause multiple processing conflicts on the servers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.

CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100751 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM UrbanCode Release 6.0.1.6 and earlier, 6.1.0.7 and earlier, and 6.1.1.1 and earlier.

Remediation/Fixes

This issue is fixed in the following releases:

Workarounds and Mitigations

    None

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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

Acknowledgement

None

*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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Internal Use Only

PSIRT # 2818 Record # 49515

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

swg21883861

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