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Security Bulletin: Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities affect Rational Publishing Engine

Security Bulletin


Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities with potential for cross-site scripting affecting Rational Publishing Engine.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1533
DESCRIPTION: IBM Publishing Engine 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/142431 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-1534
DESCRIPTION: IBM Publishing Engine 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/142432 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
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

Rational Publishing Engine 6.0.5

Rational Publishing Engine 6.0.6

Remediation/Fixes

For Rational Publishing Engine 6.0.6, upgrade to ifix001, which can be downloaded from:

Rational Publishing Engine 6.0.6 ifix001

For Rational Publishing Engine 6.0.5, upgrade to ifix002, which can be downloaded from:

Rational Publishing Engine 6.0.5 ifix002

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

10 October 2016: Initial draft published

*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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Internal Use Only

Advisories: 11724 and 11725

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Product Synonym

Rational Publishing Engine

Document Information

Modified date:
10 October 2018

UID

ibm10734697

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