Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Dojo Toolkit affecting Watson Knowledge Catalog for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Summary

Unescaped string injection in dojox/Grid/DataGrid is affecting some of the Watson Knowledge Catalog for IBM Cloud Pak for Data web UIs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2018-15494
**DESCRIPTION:**Dojo Toolkit is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the DataGrid component. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject malicious script into a Web page 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: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148556 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Install wkc-patch-3.0.0.6 for IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

See <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/5693666&gt; for details.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.