IBM Business Process Manager Open Redirection Weakness


Description   A weakness has been reported in IBM Business Process Manager, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks.
Certain input related to serve-static module for Node.js is not properly verified before being used to redirect users. This can be exploited to redirect a user to an arbitrary website e.g. when a user clicks a specially crafted link to the affected script hosted on a trusted domain.
The weakness is reported in version 8.5.5.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
IBM Business Process Manager 8.x
     
Solution   Apply interim fix for APAR JR52288. Please see the vendor's advisory for details.
     
CVE   CVE-2015-1164
     
References   IBM (JR52288):
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21694924
pierre-elie:
https://github.com/expressjs/serve-static/issues/26
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
Site with open redirect
4.0.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Low 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2015-03-11 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote