IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Team Concert and Rational DOORS Next Generation and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2016-2947. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Team Concert and Rational DOORS Next Generation (Testing Software) (the affected version is unknown) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management 4.0 before 4.0.7 iFix11, 5.0 before 5.0.2 iFix18, and 6.0 before 6.0.2 iFix5; Rational Quality Manager 4.0 before 4.0.7 iFix11, 5.0 before 5.0.2 iFix18, and 6.0 before 6.0.2 iFix5; Rational Team Concert 4.0 before 4.0.7 iFix11, 5.0 before 5.0.2 iFix18, and 6.0 before 6.0.2 iFix5; Rational DOORS Next Generation 4.0 before 4.0.7 iFix11, 5.0 before 5.0.2 iFix18, and 6.0 before 6.0.2 iFix5; Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager 4.x before 4.0.7 iFix11, 5.0 before 5.0.2 iFix18, and 6.0 before 6.0.2 iFix5; Rational Rhapsody Design Manager 4.0 before 4.0.7 iFix11, 5.0 before 5.0.2 iFix18, and 6.0 before 6.0.2 iFix5; and Rational Software Architect Design Manager 4.0 before 4.0.7 iFix11, 5.0 before 5.0.2 iFix18, and 6.0 before 6.0.2 iFix5 allow remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

The bug was discovered 10/05/2016. The weakness was released 11/25/2016 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at www-01.ibm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-2947 since 03/09/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 50 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 94518†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-93779, VDB-93775 and VDB-93773. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• Testing Software

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• IBM

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• Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management
• Rational DOORS Next Generation
• Rational Quality Manager
• Rational Team Concert

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.ibm.com/

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