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Security Bulletin: IBM InfoSphere Governance Catalog is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability

Security Bulletin


Summary

A cross-site scripting vulnerability was addressed by IBM InfoSphere Governance Catalog.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-4162
DESCRIPTION:   IBM InfoSphere Information Server 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/174342 for the current score.
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

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
InfoSphere Information Server, Information Server on Cloud 11.7
InfoSphere Information Server, Information Server on Cloud 11.5

  

Remediation/Fixes

Product  VRMF  APAR  Remediation/First Fix
 InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog,
 Information Server on Cloud		  11.7  JR61983

--Apply IBM InfoSphere Information Server version 11.7.0.1
--Apply IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.0.1 Service Pack 1

 InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog,
 Information Server on Cloud		  11.5  JR61983

--Apply IBM InfoSphere Information Server version 11.5.0.2

--Apply IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.5 Service Pack 6

--Apply Information Governance Catalog rollup patch

  

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

The vulnerability was reported to IBM by lukasr

Change History

09 March 2020: 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

[{"Business Unit":{"code":"BU059","label":"IBM Software w\/o TPS"},"Product":{"code":"SSZJPZ","label":"IBM InfoSphere Information Server"},"Component":"","Platform":[{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"},{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"},{"code":"PF002","label":"AIX"}],"Version":"11.7; 11.5","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB10","label":"Data and AI"}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
09 March 2020

UID

ibm15690451

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