A vulnerability was found in IBM Curam Social Program Management 6.0.5/6.1.1/6.2.0/7.0.1/7.0.3 (Business Process Management Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a redirect vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-601. A web application accepts a user-controlled input that specifies a link to an external site, and uses that link in a Redirect. This simplifies phishing attacks. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

IBM Curam Social Program Management 6.0.5, 6.1.1, 6.2.0, 7.0.1, and 7.0.3 could allow a remote attacker to conduct phishing attacks, using an open redirect attack. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to spoof the URL displayed to redirect a user to a malicious Web site that would appear to be trusted. This could allow the attacker to obtain highly sensitive information or conduct further attacks against the victim. IBM X-Force ID: 144747.

The bug was discovered 12/06/2018. The weakness was disclosed 12/11/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-1654 since 12/13/2017. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 06/18/2023). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1204.001.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 5 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 106187†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Business Process Management Software

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• IBM

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• Curam Social Program Management

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• 6.0.5
• 6.1.1
• 6.2.0
• 7.0.1
• 7.0.3

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• commercial

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