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Security Bulletin: Apache Ant Vulnerabilities Affect IBM Control Center (CVE-2020-1945, CVE-2020-11979)

Security Bulletin


Summary

Apache Ant could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-1945
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Ant could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the use of an insecure temporary directory to store source files. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information and inject modified source files into the build process.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/181875 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2020-11979
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Ant could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an insecure temporary file flaw. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject modified source files into the build process.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/189164 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Control Center6.2.0.0

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMF

iFix

Remediation

 IBM Control Center

 6.2.0.0

 iFix08

Fix Central - 6.2.0.0

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

13 May 2021: 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:
14 May 2021

Initial Publish date:
13 May 2021

UID

ibm16453467

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