CVE-2016-6046 Cross-site scripting in Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition

What is CVE-2016-6046?

CVE-2016-6046 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition, published on 1 Feb 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted session.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6046?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Tivoli Storage Manager.

How do I fix CVE-2016-6046?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-6046 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2016-6046 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6046 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition

• CVE-2009-3854 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-1178 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2008-4563 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2006-5855 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2016-8937 Information disclosure in Spectrum Protect Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-5x5c-4jv6-r7gg.