IBM Insights Foundation for Energy 1.0, 1.5, and 1.6 could allow an authenticated user to obtain sensitive information from error messages.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• ibm insights foundation for energy1.0
• ibm insights foundation for energy1.5
• ibm insights foundation for energy1.6

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (ibm). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• IBM Corporation IBM Insights Foundation for Energy

  • 1.0, 1.5, 1.6affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2017-1311IBM Insights Foundation for Energy 2.0 is vulnerable to SQL injection.
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• CVE-2017-1345IBM Insights Foundation for Energy 2.0 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.
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• CVE-2017-1342IBM Insights Foundation for Energy 2.0 could reveal sensitive information in error messages to authenticated users that could e used to cond
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.