Security Bulletin: Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server (CVE-2014-0873)

Summary

The IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server User Interfaces are vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.

Vulnerability Details

CVE ID:CVE-2014-0873

**DESCRIPTION:**Due to insufficient safeguards against cross-site request forgery in the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server (MDM) Data Stewardship, Business Admin or Product user interfaces an attacker can trick a legitimate user into opening a URL that results in an action being taken as that user, potentially without the knowledge of that user. Any actions taken require the user already be authenticated or to authenticate separately as part of the attack.

CVSS:
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90994 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

**ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:**None

Affected Products and Versions

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server versions 8.5, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 10.0, and 10.1

Remediation/Fixes

Binary fixes are provided that will resolve the issue. Furthermore, as source code for these components is also provided, instructions on how to manually apply the fixes to any customizations to the user interfaces is given in the Readme.html with each iFix package.

Vendor Fixes_: _

For IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server version 8.5
· Apply iFix 8.5.0.82

For IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server version 9.0.1
· Apply iFix 9.0.1.38

For IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server version 9.0.2
· Apply iFix 9.0.2.35
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For IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server version 10.0
· Apply iFix 10.0.0.0.26

For IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server version 10.1
· Apply iFix 10.1.0.0.15

Instructions on how to install the fix or to manually modify the code if you have customized the user interfaces are provided in the Readme.html with each iFix package.
The source code is also provided within the iFix in a *_src.zip file for each of the user interfaces.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None known