Security Bulletin: The IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Engineering product using jQuery 3.2.1 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting - CVE-2019-11358

Summary

Applications using jQuery before 3.4.0 are vulnerable cross site scripting for CVE-2019-11358. Following IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Engineering product is vulnerable to this attack, it has been addressed in this bulletin: IBM Jazz Reporting Service

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-11358
**DESCRIPTION:**jQuery, as used in Drupal core, is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute script in a victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim’s cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/159633 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

**Vulnerability Type:**Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Description: The vulnerability in jQuery allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code in a user’s browser if the attacker can control a specific selector in a web page and inject malicious code into it. **Affected Versions:**Various versions of jQuery were affected, and the issue was addressed in jQuery version 3.4.0 and later. **Resolution: **Released a iFix version iFix025: To ensure users could protect themselves from this vulnerability, the jQuery 3.6.0 has been released in this ifix. In jQuery 3.5.0, the major change was a security fix for the html prefilter. This release does not include a security fix, but does have some good bug fixes and improvements.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None