Vulnerability · Published Jan 18, 2022 · Assigned by ibm

CVE-2021-29872

Medium 5.4

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Cloud Pak for Automation from IBM. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.8% (higher than 56% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)5.4Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.8%top 44.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

IBM Cloud Pak for Automation 21.0.1 and 21.0.2 - Business Automation Studio Component is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject HTTP HOST header, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking. IBM X-Force ID: 206228.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
IBM	Cloud Pak for Automation	21.0.121.0.2

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6541294 x_refsource_CONFIRM
ibm-icp4a-cve202129872-header-injection (206228) vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF