SB2019051412 - Multiple vulnerabilities in TIBCO Spotfire for AWS and Spotfire Server

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11206)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin in the Spotfire library component. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as add or remove comments and rename bookmarks.

2) Reflected cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11205)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the web server component. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108405
• http://www.tibco.com/services/support/advisories
• https://www.tibco.com/support/advisories/2019/05/tibco-security-advisory-may-14-2019-tibco-spotfire-server-2019-11206
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108384
• https://www.tibco.com/support/advisories/2019/05/tibco-security-advisory-may-14-2019-tibco-spotfire-server-2019-11205