Security Bulletin: IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing is vulnerable to Host Header Injection (CVE-2021-39028)

Summary

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. CVE-2021-39028.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-39028
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. This could allow an attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
CVSS Base score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/213866 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

For IBM Publishing 7.0, upgrade to ifix016 or later, which can be downloaded from:
IBM Publishing 7.0 iFix016

For IBM Publishing 7.0.1, upgrade to ifix017 or later, which can be downloaded from:
IBM Publishing 7.0.1 iFix017

For IBM Publishing 7.0.2, upgrade to ifix013 or later, which can be downloaded from:
IBM Publishing 7.0.2 iFix013

For RPE 6.0.6 and 6.0.6.1, upgrade to latest 7.0.2 iFix13 or later, which can be downloaded from IBM Publishing 7.0.2 iFix013

Workarounds and Mitigations

None