Security Bulletin: IBM® Intelligent Operations Center has a weak user-creation policy (CVE-2019-4066)

Summary

An authenticated user can create users with malformed user IDs in IBM® Intelligent Operations Center so that these new users cannot be deleted later from the system. Because the malformed users cannot be deleted at the application level, this is a denial of service issue.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2019-4066 DESCRIPTION: IBM Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) could allow an authenticated user to create arbitrary users which could cause ID management issues and result in code execution.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/157011&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

This vulnerability affects the following products and versions:

• IBM® Intelligent Operations Center V5.1.0 - V5.2.0
• IBM® Intelligent Operations Center for Emergency Management V5.1.0 - V5.1.0.6
• IBM® Water Operations for Waternamics V5.1.0 - V5.2.1.1

Remediation/Fixes

The recommended solution is to apply an interim fix that contains the fix for this issue as soon as practical.

For information about the latest available updates for IBM® Intelligent Operations Center see IBM Intelligent Operations Center V5.2 installation updates.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.