Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in CKEditor library affects IBM Engineering Test Management (ETM) (CVE-2021-32809, CVE-2021-37695)

Summary

This Security Vulnerablity has been addressed in IBM Engineering Test Management. A fix is available to address the vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-32809
**DESCRIPTION:**CKEditor is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote authenticated attacker could inject malicious HTML code into the editor, which when viewed, would abuse the paste functionality and executed in the victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
CVSS Base score: 4.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/207429 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2021-37695
**DESCRIPTION:**CKEditor is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the Fake Objects plugin. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using malformed Fake Objects HTML, which would be executed in a victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the page is viewed. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim’s cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/207431 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading and applying the suggested fix that uses upgraded version of CKEditor.

Suggested :

Product(s)|**Version(s)
**|Remediation/Fix/Instructions
—|—|—
Engineering Test Management | 7.0.1|

Download and apply ETM 7.0.1 iFix23 from Fix Central here

Engineering Test Management | 7.0.2| Download and apply ETM 7.0.2 iFix24 from Fix Central here

Workarounds and Mitigations

None