Security Bulletin: IBM Cognos Express is affected by vulnerabilities in Installshield and InstallAnywhere

Summary

IBM Cognos Express is affected by these vulnerabilities. InstallShield and InstallAnywhere generate installation executables which are vulnerable to DLL-planting vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-2542**
DESCRIPTION:** Flexera InstallShield could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an untrusted search path. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory of a setup-launcher executable file to gain elevated privileges on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110914 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-4560**
DESCRIPTION:** Flexera InstallAnywhere could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an untrusted search path. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory of a setup-launcher executable file to gain elevated privileges on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/113016 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Cognos Express 9.5.2

IBM Cognos Express 10.1.0 and 10.1.0.1

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Cognos Express 9.5.2, 10.1.0 and 10.1.0.1

IBM Cognos Express 9.5.2, 10.1.0 and 10.1.0.1 customers should upgrade to a more current version and apply the corresponding update. Please contact Customer Support with any questions.

<https://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/product/cognos/cognos_express?productContext=-15869866&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None