Security Bulletin: IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CVE-2021-39043)

Summary

Summary guidance: The Jazz Team Server is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-39043
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Jazz Foundation is vulnerable to stored 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: 6.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/214032 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Products/Versions guidance:

Affected Product(s)|**Version(s)
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Jazz Team Server| 6.0.6, 6.0.6.1, 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2

Remediation/Fixes

Remediation/Fixes guidance:

NA

Workarounds and Mitigations

Workarounds/Mitigation guidance:

Steps:

**Steps to disable external content widget: **

1. On the dashboard screen of the application, the administrator can see the viewlet ID in the widget catalog (Add Widget button on a dashboard) for external content viewlet ID is com.ibm.team.dashboard.viewlets.web.external

2. There is an advanced property, Disabled Widgets. This exists for each application (/jts/admin) that is accessible to the administrator. This is a comma-separated list of viewlet IDs so in order to disable external content administrator will have to add viewlet ID in this field.Note: The viewlet ID must be listed in the advanced property for the application that owns the viewlet here it is JTS.

3. If a viewlet ID is in the advanced property, it will no longer be listed in the Add Widget interface for all users.

4. If a viewlet ID is in the advanced property, any pre-existing instances of the viewlet in dashboards will show the message “This widget has been disabled by the administrator”.