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Security Bulletin: IBM CICS TX Standard is vulnerable to HTTP header injection (CVE-2022-34163).

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Summary

IBM CICS TX could allow an attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking. The fix removes this vulnerability (CVE-2022-34163) from IBM CICS TX Standard.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2022-34163
DESCRIPTION:   IBM CICS TX is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. This could allow an attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229333 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM CICS TX Standard11.1

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability by downloading and applying the interim fixes from the table below  

  Product 

         Version 

         Defect 

         Remediation / First Fix 

 IBM CICS TX Standard 

11.1

127639

Download the fix from here

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

29 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:
14 February 2023

UID

ibm16608200