Security Bulletin: IBM Support Assistant Security Advisory and Security Update Pack (CVE-2008-7271, CVE-2010-4647, CVE-2012-0186, CVE-2012-0191, CVE-2012-0187)

VULNERABILITY DETAILS – Directory Traversal

CVE ID: CVE-2012-0186

DESCRIPTION: Specially-crafted URLs can be sent to the Eclipse Help component of IBM Support Assistant to disclose the location of private resources (files). This issue can be tracked by SPR # SAKL7QQG28.

CVSS: 
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/72096 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

VULNERABILITY DETAILS – Flawed Access Control Checks for Remote requests to Web Container

CVE ID: CVE-2012-0191

DESCRIPTION: Malicious users can spoof request headers sent to the IBM Support Assistant web container exploiting a flaw in access control checking to make it appear that the request came from localhost. This issue can be tracked as SPR# SAKL7QQG28 and MSTO89WRX8.

CVSS: 
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/72156 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS String: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

VULNERABILITY DETAILS – Microsoft Windows Insecure Library Loading

CVE ID: CVE-2012-0187

DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability in IBM Support Assistant caused by the Microsoft Windows Insecure Library Loading issue could allow remote code execution. Users clicking on a known file type from an untrusted and vulnerable location may inadvertently cause execution of untrusted code on their system. For more details please reference Microsoft Security Advisory 2269637. This issue can be tracked as SPR# DKLN8K7TEA, RAKA89HPF2, JKAE893E7R and RAKA899QV5.

CVSS: 
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/72097 for the 
current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

VULNERABILITY DETAILS – Multiple IBM Support Assistant Cross-site Scripting issues

CVE IDs: CVE-2008-7271, CVE-2010-4647

DESCRIPTION: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Help Contents web application (i.e., the Help Server) in Eclipse IDE, possibly 3.3.2, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. These issues can be tracked as SPR# SAKL7QQG28 and JCHC89R945.

CVSS: 
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/64833 and http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/64834 for the current scores
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS String: (AV:R/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

REMEDIATION:
The recommended solution is to apply the fix. To obtain this fix, IBM Support Assistant customers can use the update component to download and install the fixpack. The update component can be accessed from the "Update -> Find Updates To Add-ons..." menu option within the IBM Support Assistant Workbench.

Workaround: 
None known, apply fixes.

Mitigation:
None known, apply fixes.


REFERENCES: 
· Complete CVSS Guide  
· On-line Calculator V2
· X-Force Vulnerability Database  – Eclipse IDE searchWord cross-site scripting
· X-Force Vulnerability Database  – Eclipse IDE query string cross-site scripting
· X-Force Vulnerability Database  – Directory Traversal
· X-Force Vulnerability Database  – Flawed Access Control Checks for Remote requests to Web Container
· X-Force Vulnerability Database  – Microsoft Windows Insecure Library Loading
· CVE-2008-7271
· CVE-2010-4647
· CVE-2012-0186
· CVE-2012-0191
· CVE-2012-0187

RELATED INFORMATION:
· IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal  
· IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

CHANGE HISTORY: 
· 25/06/2012: Initial publication.

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