IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management up to 6.0.6.1 Request path traversal

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management up to 6.0.6.1. This issue affects some unknown processing. This manipulation with the input /../ as part of Request causes path traversal. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2019-4252. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management up to 6.0.6.1. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation with the input value /../ leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management 6.0 through 6.0.6.1 could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to view arbitrary files on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 159883.

The weakness was disclosed 06/27/2019 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2019-4252 since 01/03/2019. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/08/2023). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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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• IBM

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• Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management

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• 6.0.6.0
• 6.0.6.1

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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