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Security Bulletin: IBM Content Navigator is vulnerable to improper input validation

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Summary

IBM Content Navigator has addressed the following vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-4548
DESCRIPTION:   IBM Content Navigator is vulnerable to improper input validation. A malicious administrator could bypass the user interface and send requests to the IBM Content Navigator server with illegal characters that could be stored in the IBM Content Navigator database.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/183316 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Content Navigator3.0CD

Remediation/Fixes

ProductVMRFRemediation / First Fix
IBM Content Navigator      3.0 Continuous DeliveryICN 3.0.7 iFix 5 and above, ICN 3.0.8 iFix 1 and above.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

19 Aug 2020: Initial Publication

*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 Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
19 August 2020

UID

ibm16262411