# CVE-2024-39727: IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Insights tabnabbing

> Attackers can exploit untrusted web links to expose sensitive information or perform unauthorized actions in victims' browsers.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 25 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 26 Dec 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8qcf-755r-4vhw

## What is CVE-2024-39727?

CVE-2024-39727 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Engineering Insights, published on 25 Dec 2024. 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 Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Insights 7.0.2 and 7.0.3 uses a web link with untrusted references to an external site. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or perform unauthorized actions on the victims’ web browser.

Weakness: CWE-1022 (Use of Web Link to Untrusted Target with window.opener Access)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-39727?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Insights.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-39727?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-39727 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-39727 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-39727 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in IBM Engineering Insights

- [CVE-2024-39726](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39726/): IBM Engineering Insights XML external entity injection (high 8.2)
- [CVE-2020-4974](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-4974/): Server-side request forgery in Engineering Lifecycle Optimization (medium 6.3)
- [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-2024-39727 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-39727 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM Engineering Insights, published on 25 Dec 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-39727 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: IBM Engineering Insights. 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-2024-39727/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39727/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39727
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39727
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-39727

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39727/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.