CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-4965

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Oct 06, 2015 | Modified: Oct 06, 2015
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

maximouiweb/webmodule/webclient/utility/merlin.jsp in IBM Maximo Asset Management 7.1 through 7.1.1.13, 7.5.0 before 7.5.0.8 IFIX004, and 7.6.0 before 7.6.0.1 IFIX002; Maximo Asset Management 7.5.x before 7.5.0.8 IFIX004 and 7.6.0 before 7.6.0.1 IFIX002 for SmartCloud Control Desk; and Maximo Asset Management 7.1 through 7.1.1.13 and 7.2 for Tivoli IT Asset Management for IT and certain other products allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by reading a (1) backup or (2) debug application file.

Weakness

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Change_and_configuration_management_database Ibm 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Change_and_configuration_management_database Ibm 7.2 (including) 7.2 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.1.1 (including) 7.1.1 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.1.1.1 (including) 7.1.1.1 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.1.1.2 (including) 7.1.1.2 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.1.1.5 (including) 7.1.1.5 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.1.1.6 (including) 7.1.1.6 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.1.1.7 (including) 7.1.1.7 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.1.1.8 (including) 7.1.1.8 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.1.1.9 (including) 7.1.1.9 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.1.1.10 (including) 7.1.1.10 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.1.1.11 (including) 7.1.1.11 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.1.1.12 (including) 7.1.1.12 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.1.1.13 (including) 7.1.1.13 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.5.0.0 (including) 7.5.0.0 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.5.0.1 (including) 7.5.0.1 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.5.0.2 (including) 7.5.0.2 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.5.0.3 (including) 7.5.0.3 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.5.0.4 (including) 7.5.0.4 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.5.0.5 (including) 7.5.0.5 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.5.0.6 (including) 7.5.0.6 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.5.0.7 (including) 7.5.0.7 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.5.0.8 (including) 7.5.0.8 (including)
Maximo_asset_management Ibm 7.6.0.0 (including) 7.6.0.0 (including)
Maximo_asset_management_essentials Ibm 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Maximo_asset_management_essentials Ibm 7.5 (including) 7.5 (including)
Maximo_for_energy_optimization Ibm 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Maximo_for_government Ibm 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Maximo_for_government Ibm 7.5.0.0 (including) 7.5.0.0 (including)
Maximo_for_government Ibm 7.5.0.1 (including) 7.5.0.1 (including)
Maximo_for_government Ibm 7.5.0.2 (including) 7.5.0.2 (including)
Maximo_for_government Ibm 7.5.0.3 (including) 7.5.0.3 (including)
Maximo_for_government Ibm 7.5.0.4 (including) 7.5.0.4 (including)
Maximo_for_government Ibm 7.5.0.5 (including) 7.5.0.5 (including)
Maximo_for_government Ibm 7.5.0.6 (including) 7.5.0.6 (including)
Maximo_for_life_sciences Ibm 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Maximo_for_life_sciences Ibm 7.5.0.0 (including) 7.5.0.0 (including)
Maximo_for_life_sciences Ibm 7.5.0.1 (including) 7.5.0.1 (including)
Maximo_for_life_sciences Ibm 7.5.0.2 (including) 7.5.0.2 (including)
Maximo_for_life_sciences Ibm 7.5.0.3 (including) 7.5.0.3 (including)
Maximo_for_life_sciences Ibm 7.5.0.4 (including) 7.5.0.4 (including)
Maximo_for_life_sciences Ibm 7.5.0.5 (including) 7.5.0.5 (including)
Maximo_for_life_sciences Ibm 7.5.0.6 (including) 7.5.0.6 (including)
Maximo_for_nuclear_power Ibm 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Maximo_for_nuclear_power Ibm 7.5.0.0 (including) 7.5.0.0 (including)
Maximo_for_nuclear_power Ibm 7.5.0.1 (including) 7.5.0.1 (including)
Maximo_for_nuclear_power Ibm 7.5.0.2 (including) 7.5.0.2 (including)
Maximo_for_nuclear_power Ibm 7.5.0.3 (including) 7.5.0.3 (including)
Maximo_for_nuclear_power Ibm 7.5.0.4 (including) 7.5.0.4 (including)
Maximo_for_nuclear_power Ibm 7.5.0.5 (including) 7.5.0.5 (including)
Maximo_for_nuclear_power Ibm 7.5.0.6 (including) 7.5.0.6 (including)
Maximo_for_oil_and_gas Ibm 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Maximo_for_oil_and_gas Ibm 7.5.0.0 (including) 7.5.0.0 (including)
Maximo_for_oil_and_gas Ibm 7.5.0.1 (including) 7.5.0.1 (including)
Maximo_for_oil_and_gas Ibm 7.5.0.2 (including) 7.5.0.2 (including)
Maximo_for_oil_and_gas Ibm 7.5.0.3 (including) 7.5.0.3 (including)
Maximo_for_oil_and_gas Ibm 7.5.0.4 (including) 7.5.0.4 (including)
Maximo_for_oil_and_gas Ibm 7.5.0.5 (including) 7.5.0.5 (including)
Maximo_for_oil_and_gas Ibm 7.5.0.6 (including) 7.5.0.6 (including)
Maximo_for_transportation Ibm 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Maximo_for_transportation Ibm 7.5.0.0 (including) 7.5.0.0 (including)
Maximo_for_transportation Ibm 7.5.0.1 (including) 7.5.0.1 (including)
Maximo_for_transportation Ibm 7.5.0.2 (including) 7.5.0.2 (including)
Maximo_for_transportation Ibm 7.5.0.3 (including) 7.5.0.3 (including)
Maximo_for_transportation Ibm 7.5.0.4 (including) 7.5.0.4 (including)
Maximo_for_transportation Ibm 7.5.0.5 (including) 7.5.0.5 (including)
Maximo_for_transportation Ibm 7.5.0.6 (including) 7.5.0.6 (including)
Maximo_for_utilities Ibm 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Maximo_for_utilities Ibm 7.5.0.0 (including) 7.5.0.0 (including)
Maximo_for_utilities Ibm 7.5.0.1 (including) 7.5.0.1 (including)
Maximo_for_utilities Ibm 7.5.0.2 (including) 7.5.0.2 (including)
Maximo_for_utilities Ibm 7.5.0.3 (including) 7.5.0.3 (including)
Maximo_for_utilities Ibm 7.5.0.4 (including) 7.5.0.4 (including)
Maximo_for_utilities Ibm 7.5.0.5 (including) 7.5.0.5 (including)
Maximo_for_utilities Ibm 7.5.0.6 (including) 7.5.0.6 (including)
Smartcloud_control_desk Ibm 7.5 (including) 7.5 (including)
Tivoli_asset_management_for_it Ibm 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Tivoli_asset_management_for_it Ibm 7.2 (including) 7.2 (including)
Tivoli_service_request_manager Ibm 7.1.0 (including) 7.1.0 (including)
Tivoli_service_request_manager Ibm 7.2.0.0 (including) 7.2.0.0 (including)

Extended Description

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:

Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:

Information exposures can occur in different ways:

It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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