CVE-2017-1628 Missing authorization in Business Process Manager

What is CVE-2017-1628?

CVE-2017-1628 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Ibm Business Process Manager, published on 27 Nov 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Business Process Manager 8.6.0.0 allows authenticated users to stop and resume the Event Manager by calling a REST API with incorrect authorization checks.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-1628?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Business Process Manager.

How do I fix CVE-2017-1628?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-1628 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2017-1628 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-1628 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Business Process Manager

• CVE-2015-1961 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.0
• CVE-2017-1769 Cross-site request forgery in Business Process Manager High 8.8
• CVE-2017-1539 Privilege escalation in Business Process Manager Advanced High 8.8
• CVE-2017-1527 XML external entity in Business Process Manager Advanced High 8.1
• CVE-2015-7441 Weak cryptography in n/a Medium 6.8

All Ibm Business Process Manager vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-f6qw-56hq-m3w6.