CVE-2018-1595 Command injection in Spectrum Symphony

What is CVE-2018-1595?

CVE-2018-1595 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Symphony, published on 1 Aug 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Spectrum Symphony and Platform Symphony 7.1.2 and 7.2.0.2 could allow an authenticated user to execute arbitrary commands due to improper handling of user supplied input. IBM X-Force ID: 143622.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1595?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Ibm Platform Symphony, Ibm Spectrum Symphony.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1595?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-1595 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2018-1595 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1595 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Symphony

• CVE-2013-5400 Hardcoded credentials in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2018-1702 XML external entity in Platform Symphony High 7.1
• CVE-2018-1704 Open redirect in Platform Symphony Medium 6.8
• CVE-2018-1708 Information disclosure in Spectrum Symphony Medium 6.5
• CVE-2018-1705 Information disclosure in Platform Symphony Medium 6.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-jj6w-68rp-xpwr.