Security Bulletin: IBM Tivoli Monitoring Remote Code Execution (CVE-2015-5003)

Summary

An IBM Tivoli Monitoring portal client user account that has view authority for Take Action commands can provide specially crafted input to have additional command(s) executed on the remote IBM Tivoli Monitoring system…

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-5003**
DESCRIPTION:** An IBM Tivoli Monitoring portal client user account that has view authority for Take Action commands can provide specially crafted input to have additional command(s) executed on the remote IBM Tivoli Monitoring system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/106217 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Tivoli Monitoring** portal server** versions:

6.3.0 through 6.3.0 Fix Pack 06
6.2.3 through 6.2.3 Fix Pack 05
6.2.2 through 6.2.2 Fix Pack 09

Remediation/Fixes

The following patches are provided to remediate the vulnerability on the portal server.

The fix for IV77742 has been superseded by APAR fix IV77992. The link above containss more details.

The fix will also be included in 6.3.0-TIV-ITM-FP0007.

Workarounds and Mitigations

Remove the View permission from the user account so the Take Action dialog is not available to the Tivoli Portal user.