IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager up to 6.0.6 Web UI cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager up to 6.0.6. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Web UI. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-1560. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager up to 6.0.6 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Web UI. 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 integrity. The summary by CVE is:

IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager 5.0 through 5.02 and 6.0 through 6.0.6 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session. IBM X-Force ID: 142958.

The bug was discovered 09/20/2018. The weakness was disclosed 09/25/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-1560 since 12/12/2017. The attack may be initiated remotely. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. 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 05/19/2023). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 5 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 entries VDB-124456, VDB-124458, VDB-124459 and VDB-124460 are pretty similar. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• IBM

Name

• Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager

Version

• 5.0
• 5.01
• 5.02
• 6.0
• 6.0.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 6.0.3
• 6.0.4
• 6.0.5
• 6.0.6

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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