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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2018-1791

Severity Medium
Score 4.9/10

Summary

IBM Connections 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 is vulnerable to an External Service Interaction attack, caused by improper validation of a request property. By submitting suitable payloads, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to induce the Connections server to attack other systems. IBM X-Force ID: 148946.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • LOW
  • LOW

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published