Vulnerability · Published Jul 14, 2022 · Assigned by ibm

CVE-2021-39028

Medium 5.4

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Engineering Lifecycle Optimization Publishing from IBM. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 43% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)5.4Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 57.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing 6.0.6, 6.0.6.1, 7.0, 7.0.1, and 7.0.2 is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. This could allow an attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking. IBM X-Force ID: 213866.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization Publishing 6.0.66.0.6.17.07.0.17.0.2

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