Security Bulletin: Link Injection vulnerability in GDS component of IBM® InfoSphere® Master Data Management - Collaborative Edition (CVE-2014-0970)

Summary

Link Injection vulnerabilities can allow an attacker to embed links (URLs) to an external site or to different pages (forms) within IBM® InfoSphere® Master Data Management - Collaborative Edition. The links can appear to be valid application links. Clicking a link might cause the user to navigate to unintended sites or perform unintended actions within the application. Customers on certain versions of the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management - Collaborative Edition are potentially impacted by these vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities might cause various issues including, but not limited to, navigation to unintended external websites, apparently broken application functions, and theft of user credentials and information. The user credentials and information might be stolen by persuading the user to provide them using a fictitious login or profile page.

Vulnerability Details

CVE ID:CVE-2014-0970

CVSS:
CVSS Base Score: 3.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92950&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management - Collaborative Edition Versions 11.3, 11.0, 10.1 and 10.0 – GDS component only.
IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server for Product Information Management Versions 9.1 and 9.0 – GDS component only.

Remediation/Fixes

If you are using the GDS component, the recommended solution is to apply the fix as soon as practical. Please see below for information on the fixes available.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None known