Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in WebSphere Portal - CVE-2013-6316

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in WebSphere Portal - CVE-2013-6316

Published: December 22, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU42215
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-6316
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: IBM Corporation
Affected software:
WebSphere Portal

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0.0.x before 7.0.0.2 CF26 and 8.0.0.x before 8.0.0.1 CF09 does not properly handle content-selection changes during Taxonomy component rendering, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive property information in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging an error in a Web Content Manager (WCM) context processor.


How to mitigate CVE-2013-6316

Install update from vendor's website.

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