IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management CLM Application information disclosure

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A vulnerability has been found in IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management, Rational DOORS Next Generation, Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager, Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Rhapsody Design Manager and Rational Software Architect and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component CLM Application. Performing a manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2017-1251. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management, Rational DOORS Next Generation, Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager, Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Rhapsody Design Manager and Rational Software Architect (Testing Software). This affects an unknown part of the component CLM Application. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

An undisclosed vulnerability in CLM applications may result in some administrative deployment parameters being shown to an attacker. IBM X-Force ID: 124631.

The bug was discovered 11/16/2017. The weakness was released 11/27/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at ibm.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-1251 since 11/30/2016. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. A authentication is necessary for exploitation. 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 01/25/2021). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 11 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.

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Type

• Testing Software

Vendor

• IBM

Name

• Collaborative Lifecycle Management
• Rational DOORS Next Generation
• Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager
• Rational Quality Manager
• Rational Rhapsody Design Manager
• Rational Software Architect
• Rational Team Concert

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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