CVE-2020-4942 Cross-site request forgery in Curam SPM

What is CVE-2020-4942?

CVE-2020-4942 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Curam SPM, published on 4 Jan 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

IBM Curam Social Program Management 7.0.9 and 7.0.11 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery which could allow an attacker to execute malicious and unauthorized actions transmitted from a user that the website trusts. IBM X-Force ID: 191942.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4942?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Curam Social Program Management.

How do I fix CVE-2020-4942?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4942 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-4942 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4942 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in IBM Curam SPM

• CVE-2016-6111 XML external entity in Cram Social Program Management Critical 9.1
• CVE-2014-8903 Code injection in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2020-4779 Auth bypass in Curam SPM High 8.1
• CVE-2020-4772 XML external entity in Curam SPM High 7.1
• CVE-2018-1654 Open redirect in Curam Social Program Management Medium 6.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rfw8-3q2w-42qv.