Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in IBM Configuration Management Application (aka VVC) in IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 24/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.78% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 55.5% of all records.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in IBM Configuration Management Application (aka VVC) in IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager before 4.0.7 and 5.x before 5.0.1, Rational Software Architect Design Manager before 4.0.7 and 5.x before 5.0.1, and Rational Rhapsody Design Manager before 4.0.7 and 5.x before 5.0.1 allows remote authenticated users to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that insert XSS sequences.
- Published
- Sep 10, 2014
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.7% · 55th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-352
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Action score
24
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 24 / 40 · 6.0 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.7%
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| ibm | rational rhapsody design manager | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:rational_rhapsody_design_manager |
| ibm | rational engineering lifecycle manager | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:rational_engineering_lifecycle_manager |
| ibm | rational software architect design manager | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:rational_software_architect_design_manager |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- ibm rational engineering lifecycle managerup to 4.06 inclusive
- ibm rational engineering lifecycle manager1.0
- ibm rational engineering lifecycle manager1.0.0.1
- ibm rational engineering lifecycle manager4.03
- ibm rational engineering lifecycle manager4.04
- ibm rational engineering lifecycle manager4.05
- ibm rational engineering lifecycle manager5.0
- ibm rational rhapsody design managerup to 4.0.6 inclusive
- ibm rational rhapsody design manager3.0
- ibm rational rhapsody design manager3.0.0.1
- ibm rational rhapsody design manager3.0.1
- ibm rational rhapsody design manager4.0
- ibm rational rhapsody design manager4.0.1
- ibm rational rhapsody design manager4.0.2
- ibm rational rhapsody design manager4.0.3
- ibm rational rhapsody design manager4.0.4
- ibm rational rhapsody design manager4.0.5
- ibm rational rhapsody design manager5.0
- ibm rational software architect design managerup to 4.0.6 inclusive
- ibm rational software architect design manager3.0
Same product
ibm: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2016-9698IBM Rhapsody DM 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processi33Monitor
- CVE-2016-9707IBM Jazz Foundation is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data.32Monitor
- CVE-2016-8974IBM Rhapsody DM 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processin32Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- Later →CVE-2015-4962Jan 3, 2016 · Jazz Team Server in Jazz Foundation in IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) 3.x and 4.x before 4.0.7 IF9, 5.x before 5.0.2 14Monitor
- Later →CVE-2016-8973Mar 20, 2017 · IBM Rhapsody DM 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 contains an undisclosed vulnerability that may allow an authenticated user to upload infected malicious fil17Monitor
- Later →CVE-2016-9694Mar 20, 2017 · IBM Rhapsody DM 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.21Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
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No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.
Technical details
Attack conditions
If successful
- Confidentiality
- P · data can be read
- Integrity
- P · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- P · the service can be disrupted
- Attack complexity
- M
- Confidentiality impact
- P
- Integrity impact
- P
- Availability impact
- P
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
nvd-primary
Root cause
State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-352 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));
app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);Fixed
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));
app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Change log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.