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Security Bulletin: Potential Privilege escalation vulnerability in WebSphere Application Server shipped with Jazz for Service Management (CVE-2018-1840)

Created by Bhanu Velampati on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/871386
871386

Security Bulletin


Summary

There is a potential privilege elevation vulnerability in WebSphere Application Server shipped with Jazz for Service Management after migration from WebSphere Application Server Version 8 when a security domain is configured to use a federated repository other than global federated repository.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1840
DESCRIPTION: IBM WebSphere Application Server could allow a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused when a security domain is configured to use a federated repository other than global federated repository and then migrated to a newer release of WebSphere Application Server.
CVSS Base Score: 6
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/150813 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Jazz for Service Management version 1.1.0 - 1.1.3.2

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 Privilege escalation vulnerability in WebSphere Application Server (CVE-2018-1840)

Workarounds and Mitigations

Please refer to WAS interim fix.

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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

12-Feb-2019: 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.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
28 March 2019

UID

ibm10871386

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