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Security Bulletin: Security Vulnerabilties have been addressed in IBM Cognos Analytics

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Summary

Security vulnerabilities that affect ICU, that is embedded in IBM Cognos Analytics, have been addressed.

Cognos Analytics consumes Bootstrap and Jcraft Jsch. The versions of these components have been upgraded to addressed known vulnerabilities.

A vulnerability has been addressed in which IBM Cognos Analytics could be vulnerable to a DOS attack.

A stored XSS vulnerability has been addressed which could allow users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-15422
DESCRIPTION: Integer overflow in international date handling in International Components for Unicode (ICU) allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page.
CVSS Base Score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/136054 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2014-9654
DESCRIPTION: ICU could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper size limit checks when handling regular expressions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially crafted data to execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges or cause the application using ICU to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110456 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2014-7923
DESCRIPTION: The Regular Expressions package in International Components for Unicode (ICU) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to a look-behind expression.
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100294 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2011-4599
DESCRIPTION: International Components for Unicode is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the _canonicalize( ) function. By supplying a negative len value, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71726 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2017-14952
DESCRIPTION: International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a double free in i18n/zonemeta.cpp. By using a specially crafted string, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/133526 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2014-7926
DESCRIPTION: The Regular Expressions package in International Components for Unicode (ICU) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to a zero-length quantifier.
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100297 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2016-7415
DESCRIPTION: International Components for Unicode (ICU) is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the Locale class in common/locid.cpp. By sending an overly long string, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/117035 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-7415
DESCRIPTION: International Components for Unicode (ICU) is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the Locale class in common/locid.cpp. By sending an overly long string, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/117035 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-10735
DESCRIPTION: Bootstrap is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the data-target attribute. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute script in a victim''s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim''s cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base Score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155339 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-20676
DESCRIPTION: Bootstrap is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the tooltip data-viewport attribute. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute script in a victim''s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim''s cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base Score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155338 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-20677
DESCRIPTION: Bootstrap is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the affix configuration target property. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute script in a victim''s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim''s cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base Score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155337 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2016-5725
DESCRIPTION: JSch could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request to the implementation for recursive sftp-get containing "dot dot" sequences (/../) to download the malicious files outside the client download base directory.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/117122 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2019-4183
DESCRIPTION: IBM Cognos Analytics is vulnerable to a denial of service attack that could allow a remote user to send specially crafted requests that would consume all available CPU and memory resources.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/158973 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2019-4342
DESCRIPTION: IBM Cognos Analytics 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.
CVSS Base Score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/161421 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
 

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1
IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0

Remediation/Fixes

The recommended solution is to apply the fix for versions listed as soon as practical.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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Change History

Original Version Published: Sept 13, 2019

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Internal Use Only

16053 Stored XSS
15704 Billion Laughs
14825 Bootstrap
15009 ICU
7981 JSch

Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
13 September 2019

UID

ibm11073530