# CVE-2018-1549: Other in Rational Quality Manager

> Remote attackers can exploit HTTP response splitting in IBM Rational Quality Manager to poison caches, inject scripts, or steal sensitive data.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.0/A:N/AC:L/AV:N/C:L/I:L/PR:L/S:C/UI:R/E:U/RC:C/RL:O`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Jul 2018
- **Updated:** 17 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-p4j4-x67w-62jj

## What is CVE-2018-1549?

CVE-2018-1549 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Rational Quality Manager, published on 10 Jul 2018. 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 Rational Quality Manager 5.0 through 5.0.2 and 6.0 through 6.0.5 are vulnerable to HTTP response splitting attacks. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted URL to cause the server to return a split response, once the URL is clicked. This would allow the attacker to perform further attacks, such as Web cache poisoning, cross-site scripting, and possibly obtain sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 142658.

Weakness: CWE-74 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1549?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Rational Quality Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2018-1549?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-1549 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2018-1549 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1549 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Rational Quality Manager

- [CVE-2017-1103](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-1103/): XML external entity in Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2017-1738](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-1738/): Privilege escalation in Rational Quality Manager (medium 6.3)
- [CVE-2019-4602](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-4602/): Cross-site scripting in Rational Quality Manager (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2018-1759](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-1759/): Cross-site scripting in Rational Quality Manager (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2018-1763](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-1763/): Cross-site scripting in Rational Quality Manager (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2018-1549 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2018-1549 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibm Rational Quality Manager, published on 10 Jul 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1549 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Ibm Rational Quality Manager. 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-2018-1549/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-1549/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1549
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1549
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1549

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