Security Bulletin: IBM Cúram Social Program Management is vulnerable to cross site scripting attack(CVE-2014-6191).

Summary

IBM Cúram Social Program Management is vulnerable to cross site scripting attack caused by improper validation and sanitization of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted URL to execute script in a victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. The user’s session can be completely compromised, allowing an attacker to perform any action that the user can perform, monitor the session or steal the data viewed by the user.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-6191** **
DESCRIPTION: IBM Curam Social Program Management is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted URL to execute script in a victim’s Web browser.
CVSS Base Score: 3.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98568 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Cúram Social Program Management (SPM) V6.0 SP2
Cúram SPM 6.0.4
Cúram SPM 6.0.5
NOTE: 6.0.5.5a is not affected

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF| Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—
Cúram SPM| 6.0.5| Visit IBM Fix Central and upgrade to 6.0.5.6 or a subsequent 6.0.5 release.
Cúram SPM| 6.0.4| Visit IBM Fix Central and upgrade to 6.0.4.6 or a subsequent 6.0.4 release.
Cúram SPM| 6.0 SP2| Visit IBM Fix Central and upgrade to 6.0 SP2 EP26 or a subsequent 6.0 SP2 release.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None