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Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Incident Forensics is vulnerable to a man in the middle attack. (CVE-2015-1993)

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Summary

Several cookies in QRadar Incident Forensics are missing the secure attribute. This allows attackers with Man in The Middle position access to steal the cookie value by tricking the victim to navigate to the site on an unencrypted connection.

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1993

Description: IBM Qradar Incident Forensics could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to set the secure flag for the session cookie in SSL mode. By intercepting its transmission within an HTTP session, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to capture the cookie and obtain sensitive information.

CVSS Base Score:4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/103879 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score:*Undefined
CVSS Vector:AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Products and Versions

· IBM QRadar Incident Forensics 7.2.n

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

IBM X-Force Ethical Hacking Team: Paul Ionescu, Warren Moynihan, Jonathan Fitz-Gerald, John Zuccato

*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 Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21968270