IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation / Rational Requirements Composer Two Vulnerabilities


Description   Two vulnerabilities have been reported in IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation and IBM Rational Requirements Composer, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
2) An error when parsing XML entities can be exploited to consume memory resources via a specially crafted XML document including entity references.
The vulnerability is reported in the following products and versions:
* IBM Rational Requirements Composer 4.0 through 4.0.7.
* IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation 4.0 through 4.0.7.
* IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation 5.0 through 5.0.1.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation 4.xIBM Rational DOORS Next Generation 5.xIBM Rational Requirements Composer 4.x
     
Solution   Update to version 4.0.7 iFix3 or 5.0.2.
     
CVE   CVE-2015-0132
CVE-2015-0125
     
References   http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21697297
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21698248
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'meta' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL
3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2015-02-24 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote