Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities affect IBM® Rational® Quality Manager and IBM® Rational® Team Concert with potential for security attacks

Summary

IBM® Rational® Quality Manager and IBM® Rational® Team Concert are affected by multiple vulnerabilities with potential for HTML Injection, Cross Site Scripting and Denial of Service attacks.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-6035**
DESCRIPTION:** IBM Rational Quality Manager is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session.
CVSS Base Score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/116896 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2016-6037**
DESCRIPTION:** IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) is vulnerable to HTML injection. A remote attacker with project administrator privileges could send a project that contains malicious HTML code, which when the project is viewed, would be executed in the victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting site.
CVSS Base Score: 4.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/116918 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2017-1103**
DESCRIPTION:** IBM Team Concert (RTC) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume all available memory resources.
CVSS Base Score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120665 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management 4.0.0 - 6.0.3

Rational Quality Manager 6.0 - 6.0.2
Rational Quality Manager 5.0 - 5.0.2
Rational Quality Manager 4.0 - 4.0.7

Rational Team Concert 6.0 - 6.0.3
Rational Team Concert 5.0 - 5.0.2
Rational Team Concert 4.0 - 4.0.7

Remediation/Fixes

• For the 6.0 - 6.0.3 releases, upgrade to one of the following versions:

Version 6.0.3 iFix4 or later
* Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management 6.0.3 iFix4
* Rational Team Concert 6.0.3 iFix4
* Rational Qualtiy Manager 6.0.3 is not affected.

Version 6.0.2 iFix9 or later
* Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management 6.0.2 iFix9
* Rational Quality Manager 6.0.2 iFix9
* Rational Team Concert 6.0.2 iFix9
* For the 5.0 - 5.0.2 releases, upgrade to version 5.0.2 iFix21 or later

• Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management 5.0.2 iFix21

• Rational Quality Manager 5.0.2 iFix21

• Rational Team Concert 5.0.2 iFix21
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  _For the 4.0 - 4.0.7 releases, upgrade to version 4.0.7 iFix13 or later

• Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management 4.0.7 iFix13

• Rational Quality Manager 4.0.7 iFix13

• Rational Team Concert 4.0.7 iFix13

• For any prior versions of the products listed above, IBM recommends upgrading to a fixed, supported version/release/platform of the product.

If the iFix is not found in the Fix Portal please contact IBM Support.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None