Disclosure of system information in IBM Lotus Domino in IBM Lotus Domino - CVE-2016-3674

 

Disclosure of system information in IBM Lotus Domino in IBM Lotus Domino - CVE-2016-3674

Published: July 22, 2016


Vulnerability identifier: #VU198
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3674
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to conduct XML external entity attack and obtain ssensitive information on the target system.

The vulnerability exists in IBM Lotus Domino. A remote unauthenticated attacker can obtain potentially sensitive information by supplying specially crafted XML External Entity (XXE) data to the target interface and exploit a flaw in the XStream component.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in disclosure of system information.

Affected software

IBM Lotus Domino
Debian Linux
Ubuntu
Fedora
libxstream-java (Ubuntu package)
xstream
Storage Copy Data Management

How to mitigate CVE-2016-3674

IBM has issued a fix (8.53 FP6 Interim Fix 14, 9.01 FP6 Interim Fix 2).

libxstream-java (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
xstream - addressed in versions 1.4.9-1.fc22, 1.4.9-1.fc23, 1.4.9-1.fc24
Storage Copy Data Management - update to 2.2.26.0

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