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Security Bulletin: Cross-site scripting vulnerability in OAuth ear in WebSphere Application Server shipped with Tivoli Integrated Portal (CVE-2018-1794)

Created by Bhanu Velampati on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/874698
874698

Security Bulletin


Summary

There is a potential cross-site scripting vulnerability in the OAuth ear in WebSphere Application Server shipped with Tivoli Integrated Portal .

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1794
DESCRIPTION: IBM WebSphere Application Server using OAuth ear is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session.
CVSS Base Score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148949 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Tivoli Integrated Portal version 2.1.0 - 2.1.0.5

Tivoli Integrated Portal version 2.2.0.0 - 2.2.0.19

Remediation/Fixes

Principal Product and Version(s) Affected Supporting Product and Version Affected Supporting Product Security Bulletin
Tivoli Integrated Portal version

2.1.0 - 2.1.0.5

2.2.0 - 2.2.0.17

 embedded WebSphere Application Server version 7.0.x

Security Bulletin: Cross-site scripting vulnerability in OAuth ear in WebSphere Application Server (CVE-2018-1794)

The WebSphere security bulletin above provides a link to the required iFix to remediate the vulnerability. However, the iFix requires either eWAS 7.0.0.31 or higher installed. 

TIP does not support upgrading WebSphere fixpack independently. TIP fixpack 2.2.0.15 or 2.2.0.17 or 2.2.0.19 must be applied which will upgrade eWAS to 7.0.0.31 and above. Once one of these TIP fixpacks has been applied, the WebSphere iFix can be applied as described in the WebSphere bulletin.

Workarounds and Mitigations

Please refer to WAS iFix as described above

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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

Acknowledgement

The vulnerability was reported to IBM by Benoit Côté-Jodoin from GoSecure

Change History

04 March 2019: original document 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 Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
28 March 2019

UID

ibm10874698

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