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Security Bulletin: Potential directory traversal vulnerability in WebSphere Application Server shipped with Jazz for Service Management (CVE-2018-1797)

Created by Nakkala Kumar on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/743035
743035

Security Bulletin


Summary

There is a potential directory traversal vulnerability in WebSphere Application Server (CVE-2018-1797). This is occurs when an Enterprise Bundle Archive (EBA) is installed into the Application Server that has a path external to the EBA.

Vulnerability Details

DESCRIPTION: IBM WebSphere Application Server using Enterprise bundle Archives (EBA) could allow a local attacker to traverse directories on the system. By persuading a victim to extract a specially-crafted ZIP archive containing "dot dot slash" sequences (../), an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to write to arbitrary files on the system. Note: This vulnerability is known as "Zip-Slip".
CVSS Base Score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149427 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Jazz for Service Management version 1.1.0 - 1.1.3

Remediation/Fixes

Principal Product and Version(s)

 Affected Supporting Product and Version Affected Supporting Product Security Bulletin
Jazz for Service Management version 1.1.0 - 1.1.3 Websphere Application Server Full Profile 8.5.5

Security Bulletin: Potential directory traversal vulnerability in WebSphere Application Server (CVE-2018-1797)

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

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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

29 November 2018: Original version published

*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.

Disclaimer

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Document Information

Modified date:
03 December 2018

UID

ibm10743035

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