IBM Connections up to 4.0 CR4/4.5 CR5/5.0 CR3/5.5 Web UI cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in IBM Connections up to 4.0 CR4/4.5 CR5/5.0 CR3/5.5. This affects an unknown part of the component Web UI. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2016-2995. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. To fix this issue, it is recommended to deploy a patch.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in IBM Connections up to 4.0 CR4/4.5 CR5/5.0 CR3/5.5 (Groupware Software). Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Web UI. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Web UI in IBM Connections 4.0 through CR4, 4.5 through CR5, 5.0 before CR4, and 5.5 before CR1 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-2997, CVE-2016-3005, and CVE-2016-3010.

The weakness was disclosed 09/01/2016 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at www-01.ibm.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2016-2995 since 03/09/2016. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Required for exploitation is a single authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Applying the patch 5.0 CR4/5.5 CR1 is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 92576†). The entries VDB-91028, VDB-91029, VDB-91030 and VDB-91032 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Groupware Software

Vendor

• IBM

Name

• Connections

Version

• 4.0 CR4
• 4.5 CR5
• 5.0
• 5.0 CR3
• 5.1
• 5.2
• 5.3
• 5.4
• 5.5

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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