Security Bulletin: IBM CICS TX Standard is vulnerable to HTML injection (CVE-2022-34160)

Summary

IBM CICS TX Standard could allow a remote attacker to inject malicious HTML code. The fix removes this vulnerability (CVE-2022-34160) from IBM CICS TX Standard.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-34160
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM CICS TX Standard and Advanced 11.1 is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker could inject malicious HTML code, which when viewed, would be executed in the victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting site. IBM X-Force ID: 229330.
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229330 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability by downloading and applying the interim fixes from the table below

Product

| Version| Defect| Remediation / First Fix
—|—|—|—
IBM CICS TX Standard|

11.1

| 127637| Download fix from here

Workarounds and Mitigations

None