IBM Rational Focal Point Multiple Vulnerabilities


Description   Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in IBM Rational Focal Point, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks and bypass certain security restrictions and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
1) Certain unspecified input is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site if malicious data is viewed.
2) 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.
3) An error due to the application not properly restricting certain functionality can be exploited modify certain otherwise restricted data.
Please see the vendor's advisory for a list of affected versions.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
IBM Rational Focal Point 6.x
     
Solution   Apply the devfix (please contact IBM Technical Support for details).
     
CVE   CVE-2015-0166
CVE-2015-0165
CVE-2015-0164
     
References   IBM:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21697908
     
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 
2015-03-03 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote