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Security Bulletin: Rational Build Forge affected by Apache Tomcat vulnerability (CVE-2014-0227)

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Summary

The Apache Tomcat server used in Rational Build Forge is vulnerable to an attack using request smuggling.

Vulnerability Details

CVE ID: CVE-2014-0227
Description
: Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted request in a malformed chunked header to the Web server to cause multiple processing conflicts on the servers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.

CVSS Base Score:
4.3
CVSS Temporal Score:
See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100751 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*:
Undefined
CVSS Vector:
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

BuildForge Versions: 7.1.2, 7.1.2.1, 7.1.2.2, 7.1.2.3, 7.1.3, 7.1.3.1, 7.1.3.2, 7.1.3.3, 7.1.3.4, 7.1.3.5, 7.1.3.6, 8.0, 8.0.0.1, 8.0.0.2.

Remediation/Fixes

Affected Version

Fix
Build Forge 7.1.2.0 - 7.1.2.37.1.2.3 iFix 6
Build Forge 7.1.3.0 - 7.1.3.67.1.3.6 iFix 5
Build Forge 8.0 - 8.0.0.28.0.0.2 iFix 5

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*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 Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

swg21960149