Lenovo IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module up to 3.68n Web Interface insufficiently protected credentials

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Lenovo IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module up to 3.68n. It has been classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Web Interface. The manipulation leads to insufficiently protected credentials. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2020-8339. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Lenovo IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module up to 3.68n and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Web Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-522. The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

A cross-site scripting inclusion (XSSI) vulnerability was reported in the legacy IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM) web interface prior to version 3.68n [BPET68N]. This vulnerability could allow an authenticated user's AMM credentials to be disclosed if the user is convinced to visit a malicious web site, possibly through phishing. Successful exploitation requires specific knowledge about the user’s network to be included in the malicious web site. Impact is limited to the normal access restrictions of the user visiting the malicious web site, and subject to the user being logged into AMM, being able to connect to both AMM and the malicious web site while the web browser is open, and using a web browser that does not inherently protect against this class of attack. The JavaScript code is not executed on AMM itself.

The weakness was published 09/15/2020 (Website). The advisory is shared at support.lenovo.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-8339 since 01/28/2020. The attack may be initiated remotely. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1552 for this issue.

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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Vendor

• Lenovo

Name

• IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module

Version

• 3.68a
• 3.68b
• 3.68c
• 3.68d
• 3.68e
• 3.68f
• 3.68g
• 3.68h
• 3.68i
• 3.68j
• 3.68k
• 3.68l
• 3.68m
• 3.68n

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.lenovo.com/

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