SB2024060318 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM WebSphere Extreme Scale
Published: June 3, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10785)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when "dojox.xmpp.util.xmlEncode" method only encodes the first occurrence of each character, not all of them. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
PoC:
"&&".replace("&", "&") == "&&"
2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6561)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the onload attribute of an SVG element.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
3) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-4051)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the Editor's LinkDialog plugin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
4) Prototype pollution (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-5259)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within the jqMix method. A remote attacker can inject and execute arbitrary JavaScript script code.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.