Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM Personal Communications is susceptible to unauthorized access vulnerability when running on a compromised system (by the victim opening a mail with a malicious attachment or visiting a malicious website). Malware could run with user privileges but not necessarily having access to the password. An attacker could retrieve user credentials by running PowerShell Script and by exploiting design flaw in IBM Personal Communications to extract users' password.
Vulnerability Details
DESCRIPTION:
IBM PCOMM could allow a remote user to obtain sensitive information including user passwords, leading to un-authorized access.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111584 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
IBM Personal Communications from version 6.0 to 6.0.16 and version 12.0 on all supported platforms as well as PCOMM versions 13.0.0 - 13.0.1 are the affected versions. After the PCOMM v1302 release, this issue has been resolved for all PCOMM versions.
Remediation/Fixes
Product |
VRMF
|
APAR
|
Remediation/First Fix |
IBM Personal communication | 13.0.2 | IT25704 | https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/738343 |
IBM Personal communication | 12.0.0.1 | IT12006 | http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24042354 |
IBM Personal communication | 6.0.17 | IT12006 | http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24042475 |
Workarounds and Mitigations
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References
Change History
*07 July 2016: Original copy 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.
Disclaimer
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Document Information
Modified date:
03 November 2023
UID
swg21981692