KLA10198 Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Director

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in IBM Director. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service or execute arbitrary code. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities

1. Vectors related to CIM server can be exploited remotely via a specially designed consumer name;
2. A directory traversal vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed URI.

Original advisories

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Related products

IBM-Director

CVE list

CVE-2009-0879 critical

CVE-2009-0880 high

Solution

Update to latest version

Impacts

• ACE

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

• SB

Security bypass. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing actions restricted by current security settings.

Affected Products

• IBM Director versions 5.20.3 SP 1 and earlier