IBM Financial Transaction Manager up to 3.0.0.7 sql injection

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Financial Transaction Manager up to 3.0.0.7 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to sql injection. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-1606. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Financial Transaction Manager up to 3.0.0.7 (Financial Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for Multi-Platform (MP) 3.0.0.0 through 3.0.0.7 is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database. IBM X-Force ID: 132926.

The bug was discovered 12/05/2017. The weakness was disclosed 12/11/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at ibm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-1606 since 11/30/2016. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. 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 01/26/2021). 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 T1505.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 6 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 102049†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Financial Software

Vendor

• IBM

Name

• Financial Transaction Manager

Version

• 3.0.0.0
• 3.0.0.1
• 3.0.0.2
• 3.0.0.3
• 3.0.0.4
• 3.0.0.5
• 3.0.0.6
• 3.0.0.7

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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