Cross-site scripting in TIBCO products - CVE-2019-8991

 

Cross-site scripting in TIBCO products - CVE-2019-8991

Published: September 20, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU21229
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-8991
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: TIBCO
Affected software:
TIBCO Silver Fabric Enabler for ActiveMatrix Service Grid
TIBCO Silver Fabric Enabler for ActiveMatrix BPM
TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid Distribution for TIBCO Silver Fabric
TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid
TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM Distribution for TIBCO Silver Fabric
TIBCO ActiveMatrix Policy Director
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM

Detailed vulnerability description

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the administrator web interface component. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


How to mitigate CVE-2019-8991

Install update from vendor's website.

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