IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact up to 7.1.0.17 cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability has been found in IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact (Directory Service Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact 7.1.0.0 through 7.1.0.17 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery which could allow an attacker to execute malicious and unauthorized actions transmitted from a user that the website trusts. IBM X-Force ID: 175411.

The weakness was presented 03/31/2020 (Website). The advisory is shared at exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-4238 since 12/30/2019. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/01/2020). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.

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

See VDB-152474, VDB-152472, VDB-152471 and VDB-152470 for similar entries. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
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12/30/2019 🔍
03/31/2020 +92 days 🔍
04/01/2020 +1 days 🔍
05/10/2025 +1864 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: ibm.com

Advisory: exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2020-4238 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2020-4238
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-152473
X-Force: 175411

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Created: 04/01/2020 08:32 AM
Updated: 05/10/2025 12:41 AM
Changes: 04/01/2020 08:32 AM (39), 04/01/2020 08:37 AM (18), 10/05/2020 02:57 PM (1), 05/12/2024 03:41 PM (28), 05/10/2025 12:41 AM (3)
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