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Security Bulletin: IBM Sterling Control Center vulnerable to arbitrary file upload and sensitive information exposure due to IBM Cognos Analytics (CVE-2021-38945, CVE-2021-29768)

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Summary

IBM Cognos Analytics is shipped with IBM Sterling Control Center. To address multiple vulnerabilities, IBM Sterling Control Center now includes IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7.5.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-38945
DESCRIPTION:   IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.1, 11.2.0, and 11.1.7 could allow a remote attacker to upload arbitrary files, caused by improper content validation. IBM X-Force ID: 211238.
CVSS Base score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/211238 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-29768
DESCRIPTION:   IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, 11.2.0, and 11.2.1 could allow a low level user to obtain sensitive information from the details of the 'Cloud Storage' page for which they should not have access. IBM X-Force ID: 202682.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/202682 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Sterling Control Center6.1.3.0 iFix12

Remediation/Fixes

ProductVersionRemediation / Fix
IBM Sterling Control Center6.1.3.0 iFix126.1.3.0 iFix13 Fix Central - 6.1.3.0
 

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

For further Cognos vulnerability remediation details, please refer to the original security bulletin Security Bulletin: IBM Cognos Analytics has addressed multiple vulnerabilities.

Change History

20 Jul 2022: 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:
25 July 2022

Initial Publish date:
20 July 2022

UID

ibm16606983

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