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Security Bulletin: common-18.2.14.tgz, IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services is affected by Credential Leak by App Logic that leads to the unauthorized disclosure.

Security Bulletin


Summary

common-18.2.14.tgz is used by IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services (CVE-2025-66035).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2025-66035
DESCRIPTION:   Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages. Prior to versions 19.2.16, 20.3.14, and 21.0.1, there is a XSRF token leakage via protocol-relative URLs in angular HTTP clients. The vulnerability is a Credential Leak by App Logic that leads to the unauthorized disclosure of the Cross-Site Request Forgery (XSRF) token to an attacker-controlled domain. Angular's HttpClient has a built-in XSRF protection mechanism that works by checking if a request URL starts with a protocol (http:// or https://) to determine if it is cross-origin. If the URL starts with protocol-relative URL (//), it is incorrectly treated as a same-origin request, and the XSRF token is automatically added to the X-XSRF-TOKEN header. This issue has been patched in versions 19.2.16, 20.3.14, and 21.0.1. A workaround for this issue involves avoiding using protocol-relative URLs (URLs starting with //) in HttpClient requests. All backend communication URLs should be hardcoded as relative paths (starting with a single /) or fully qualified, trusted absolute URLs.
CWE:   CWE-201: Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data
CVSS Source:   security-advisories@github.com
CVSS Base score:   7.7
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services6.3.0 to 6.3.0.18
IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services6.4.0 to 6.4.0.7

 

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading ...

Product(s)Version(s)Remediation
IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services6.3.0 to 6.3.0.18Apply 6.3.0.19, available on Fix Central 
IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services6.4.0 to 6.4.0.7Apply 6.4.0.8, available on Fix Central

Customers who are using Helm deployments of IBM Connect:Direct Web Services must pick up the latest Helm chart to patch this vulnerability.

For unsupported versions IBM recommends upgrading to fixed, supported version of the product.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

02 Jun 2026: 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:
02 June 2026

Initial Publish date:
02 June 2026

UID

ibm17274843