# CVE-2018-1457: Privilege escalation in Rational DOORS

> An attacker can gain administrator privileges in IBM Rational DOORS, requiring users to apply vendor patches.

- **Severity:** High 8.1 (`CVSS:3.0/A:H/AC:H/AV:N/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:U/UI:N/E:U/RC:C/RL:O`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 27 Jun 2018
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6cwf-cgh6-hrg2

## What is CVE-2018-1457?

CVE-2018-1457 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Rational DOORS, published on 27 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

An undisclosed vulnerability in IBM Rational DOORS 9.5.1 through 9.6.1.10 application allows an attacker to gain DOORS administrator privileges. IBM X-Force ID: 140208.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1457?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Engineering Requirements Management Doors.

## How do I fix CVE-2018-1457?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-1457 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2018-1457 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1457 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in IBM Rational DOORS

- [CVE-2023-50304](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-50304/): IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS XML external entity injection (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2017-1545](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-1545/): Hardcoded credentials in Rational DOORS (medium 6.8)
- [CVE-2023-28949](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28949/): IBM Engineering Requirements Management cross-site request forgery (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-43190](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43190/): IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS weak authentication (medium 5.9)
- [CVE-2017-1516](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-1516/): Other in Rational DOORS (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2018-1457 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2018-1457 is a high-severity vulnerability in IBM Rational DOORS, published on 27 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1457 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: IBM Rational DOORS. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-1457/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-1457/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1457
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1457
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1457

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