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Security Bulletin: A vulnerability (CVE-2021-39028) in WebSphere Application Server Liberty affects IBM CICS TX Standard

Security Bulletin


Summary

WebSphere Application Server Liberty is used by IBM CICS TX Standard to provide a web based administration console and to provide web services support. The fix removes vulnerability CVE-2021-39038 that allows a remote attacker to hijack the clicking action of the victim.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-39038
DESCRIPTION:   IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.0 and IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 22.0.0.2 could allow a remote attacker to hijack the clicking action of the victim. By persuading a victim to visit a malicious Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to hijack the victim's click actions and possibly launch further attacks against the victim. IBM X-Force ID: 213968.
CVSS Base score: 4.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/213968 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM CICS TX Standard11.1

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends you apply the following fix

   Product  

      Version 

    Defect 

Remediation / First Fix 

 IBM CICS TX Standard 

11.1

127740 

Fix Central Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder?product=ibm%2FOther+software%2FCICS+TX+Standard&fixids=ibm-cics-tx-standard-image-11.1.0.0-ifix2&source=SAR

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

Change History

14 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
14 February 2023

UID

ibm16595099

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