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Security Bulletin: File path traversal vulnerability affecting IBM Business Process Manager Process Center (CVE-2014-6182)

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Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/521759
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Security Bulletin


Summary

An export function in IBM Business Process Manager Process Center is vulnerable to file path traversal. As a result, sensitive files might be downloaded.

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-6182

Description:
IBM Business Process Manager could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing 'dot dot' sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 4.0
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98518 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

  • IBM Business Process Manager Standard V8.0.x 8.5.x
  • IBM Business Process Manager Express V8.0.x 8.5.x
  • IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8.0.x 8.5.x

Remediation/Fixes

Install the interim fix for APAR JR51234 as appropriate for your current IBM Business Process Manager version. Please note that on IBM Business Process Manager 8.0.1.3 the APAR is JR52424.

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

Change History

2014-12-12 - initial version published
2014-12-17 - fixed encoding issue in vulnerability description
2015-02-04 - updated APAR id for BPM 8.0.1.3

*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:
15 June 2018

UID

swg21692540

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