A vulnerability was found in IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Team Concert and Rational DOORS Next Generation (Testing Software) (the affected version unknown). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is confidentiality, and integrity. CVE summarizes:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management 4.0 before 4.0.7 iFix11, 5.0 before 5.0.2 iFix19, and 6.0 before 6.0.2 iFix3; Rational Quality Manager 4.0 before 4.0.7 iFix11, 5.0 before 5.0.2 iFix19, and 6.0 before 6.0.2 iFix3; Rational Team Concert 4.0 before 4.0.7 iFix11, 5.0 before 5.0.2 iFix19, and 6.0 before 6.0.2 iFix3; Rational DOORS Next Generation 4.0 before 4.0.7 iFix11, 5.0 before 5.0.2 iFix19, and 6.0 before 6.0.2 iFix3; Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager 4.x before 4.0.7 iFix11, 5.0 before 5.0.2 iFix19, and 6.0 before 6.0.2 iFix3; Rational Rhapsody Design Manager 4.0 before 4.0.7 iFix11, 5.0 before 5.0.2 iFix19, and 6.0 before 6.0.2 iFix3; and Rational Software Architect Design Manager 4.0 before 4.0.7 iFix11, 5.0 before 5.0.2 iFix19, and 6.0 before 6.0.2 iFix3 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL.

The bug was discovered 11/03/2016. The weakness was shared 11/25/2016 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at www-01.ibm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-2926 since 03/09/2016. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is necessary for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 22 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 94146†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Testing Software

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• IBM

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• Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management
• Rational DOORS Next Generation
• Rational Quality Manager
• Rational Team Concert

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