# CVE-2020-4974: Server-side request forgery in Engineering Lifecycle Optimization

> Authenticated attackers can exploit SSRF in IBM Jazz Foundation to send unauthorized requests, enabling network enumeration and facilitating further attacks.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.3 (`CVSS:3.0/A:L/UI:N/C:L/AV:N/PR:L/I:L/AC:L/S:U/RC:C/E:U/RL:O`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 Jul 2021
- **Updated:** 17 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8xmv-482h-9xqg

## What is CVE-2020-4974?

CVE-2020-4974 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in Ibm Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management, published on 28 Jul 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

IBM Jazz Foundation products are vulnerable to server side request forgery (SSRF). This may allow an authenticated attacker to send unauthorized requests from the system, potentially leading to network enumeration or facilitating other attacks. IBM X-Force ID: 192434.

Weakness: CWE-918 (Server-Side Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-4974?

It affects 9 products.


Products: Ibm Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Insights, Ibm Engineering Requirements Quality Assistant On-Premises, Ibm Engineering Test Management, Ibm Engineering Workflow Management, Ibm Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management, Ibm Rational Doors Next Generation, Ibm Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager, Ibm Rational Quality Manager, Ibm Rational Team Concert.

## How do I fix CVE-2020-4974?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-4974 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2020-4974 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4974 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management

- [CVE-2024-39726](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39726/): IBM Engineering Insights XML external entity injection (high 8.2)
- [CVE-2024-39727](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39727/): IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Insights tabnabbing (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2020-5004](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5004/): Cross-site scripting in Engineering Lifecycle Optimization (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2024-39725](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39725/): IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Insights information disclosure (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-4974 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2020-4974 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in Ibm Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management, published on 28 Jul 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-4974 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Ibm Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management. 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-2020-4974/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-4974/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-4974
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-4974
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-4974

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