A vulnerability has been found in IBM PowerVC up to 1.2.0.4/1.2.1.2/1.2.2.2 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the component NoSQL. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

IBM PowerVC 1.2.0.x through 1.2.0.4, 1.2.1.x through 1.2.1.2, and 1.2.2.x through 1.2.2.2 does not require authentication for the ceilometer NoSQL database, which allows remote attackers to read or write to arbitrary database records, and consequently obtain administrator privileges, via a session on port 27017.

The weakness was disclosed 05/30/2015 (Website). The advisory is available at www-01.ibm.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2015-1937 since 02/19/2015. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/02/2019). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Proper firewalling of tcp/27017 is able to address this issue.

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• IBM

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• PowerVC

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• 1.2.0.0
• 1.2.0.1
• 1.2.0.2
• 1.2.0.3
• 1.2.0.4
• 1.2.1.0
• 1.2.1.1
• 1.2.1.2
• 1.2.2.0
• 1.2.2.1
• 1.2.2.2

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• commercial

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