Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM Rational Quality Manage ships with the Apache Commons File Upload library which contains a security vulnerability that could potentially be exploited to cause a denial of service attack.
Vulnerability Details
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A prior security bulletin Security vulnerability in IBM Jazz Team Server affects multiple IBM Rational products based on IBM Jazz technology (CVE-2014-0050) addresses this vulnerability for multiple Rational products. The correction in that security bulletin was insufficient for Rational Quality Manager. This security bulletin indicates new remediations that provide further corrections for the below vulnerability. These further corrections apply only for the Rational Quality Manager product, and are not needed for the other products.
CVEID: CVE-2014-0050
Description: Apache Commons FileUpload is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop.
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90987 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Affected Products and Versions
Rational Quality Manager 2.0 - 2.0.1
Rational Quality Manager 3.0 - 3.0.1.6 iFix3
Rational Quality Manager 4.0 - 4.0.7 iFix1
Rational Quality Manager 5.0 - 5.0.1
Remediation/Fixes
A fix is available by upgrading to the 5.0.2 release or later.
For the 4.x releases upgrade to version 4.0.7 iFix 3 or later.
For the 3.x releases upgrade to version 3.0.1.6 iFix 4 or later.
For the 2.x releases, contact IBM support for additional details on the fix.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
None
Change History
* 05 December 2014: 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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Product Synonym
Rational Quality Manager
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Document Information
Modified date:
16 June 2018
UID
swg21691927