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Security Bulletin: IBM Engineering Test Management is vulnerable to execute arbitrary commands on system due to XStream ( CVE-2021-29505 ).

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Engineering Test Management is vulnerable to remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by improper input validation. By manipulating the processed input stream, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-29505
DESCRIPTION:   XStream XStream could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by improper input validation. By manipulating the processed input stream, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/202795 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
RQM6.0.6.1
ETM7.0.1
ETM7.0.2
RQM6.0.6
ETM7.0.0

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to following IBM Engineering Test Management releases or any version later :

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

Change History

28 Jun 2022: Initial Publication

*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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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
04 July 2022

UID

ibm16601095

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