Cross-site scripting in knockout - CVE-2019-14863

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Cross-site scripting in knockout - CVE-2019-14863

Published: December 4, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU23383
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14863
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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. 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.


Affected software

knockout
Control Desk
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
IBM DataPower Gateway
BIG-IP
IBM Transformation Extender Advanced
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
IBM Business Automation Workflow
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation

How to mitigate CVE-2019-14863

Install updates from vendor's website.

knockout - update to 3.5.0
IBM DataPower Gateway - addressed in versions 10.0.1.4, 10.0.3.0, 2018.4.1.17
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.1
IBM Transformation Extender Advanced - addressed in versions 10.0.1.11, 10.0.2.0
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus - update to 10.1.6.4
IBM Business Automation Workflow - addressed in versions 21.0.3 IF021, 22.0.2 IF005
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation - addressed in versions 21.0.3.21, 22.0.2.5

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