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Security Bulletin: IBM CICS TX Standard is vulnerable to HTML injection (CVE-2022-34160)

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Summary

IBM CICS TX Standard could allow a remote attacker to inject malicious HTML code. The fix removes this vulnerability (CVE-2022-34160) from IBM CICS TX Standard.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2022-34160
DESCRIPTION:   IBM CICS TX Standard and Advanced 11.1 is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code, which when viewed, would be executed in the victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting site. IBM X-Force ID: 229330.
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229330 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM CICS TX StandardAll

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability by downloading and applying the interim fixes from the table below  

Product

VersionDefectRemediation / First Fix
IBM CICS TX Standard
11.1
127637Download fix from here

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

06 Jul 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:
14 February 2023

UID

ibm16601553