# CVE-2023-24975: IBM Spectrum Symphony HOST header injection

> Attackers can inject HTTP headers to enable XSS, cache poisoning, or session hijacking in IBM Spectrum Symphony.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **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:** 2 Mar 2023
- **Updated:** 5 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-mrwc-w456-rmvm

## What is CVE-2023-24975?

CVE-2023-24975 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Symphony, published on 2 Mar 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

IBM Spectrum Symphony 7.3 is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input by the HOST headers. This could allow an attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking. IBM X-Force ID: 247030.

Weakness: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-24975?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Spectrum Symphony.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-24975?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-24975 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-24975 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-24975 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in IBM Spectrum Symphony

- [CVE-2018-1706](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-1706/): Cross-site scripting in Spectrum Symphony (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-24975 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-24975 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Symphony, published on 2 Mar 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-24975 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: IBM Spectrum Symphony. 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-2023-24975/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-24975/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-24975
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24975
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-24975

---
From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-24975/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.