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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Cordova affects IBM Worklight, IBM Mobile Foundation and IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation (CVE-2015-5204)

Created by Shyamala Rajagopalan on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/272147
272147

Security Bulletin


Summary

Apache Cordova File Transfer Plugin for Android is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web page, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary HTTP headers, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-5204
DESCRIPTION: Apache Cordova File Transfer Plugin for Android is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web page, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary HTTP headers, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
CVSS Base Score: 4.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/106701 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

  • IBM Worklight Consumer Edition Versions 5.x and 6.x
  • IBM Worklight Enterprise Edition Versions 5.x and 6.x
  • IBM Mobile Foundation Consumer Edition Version 5.x and 6.x
  • IBM Mobile Foundation Enterprise Edition Version 5.x and 6.x
  • IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation Version 6.x and 7.x

Remediation/Fixes

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog



Change History

* 17 November 2015: Original copy 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.

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

swg21971225

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