EMC Identifier: ESA-2017-111
CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-8016, CVE-2017-8025, CVE-2017-14369, CVE-2017-14370, CVE-2017-14371, CVE-2017-14372
Severity Rating: CVSSv3 Base Score: See below for scores of individual CVEs
Affected Products:
RSA Archer versions prior to 6.2.0.6
Summary:
RSA Archer GRC 6.2.0.5 Platform contains fixes for several vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited by malicious users to compromise an affected system.
Details:
Multiple components within the RSA Archer product have been updated to address various vulnerabilities:
- Stored Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-8016 and CVE-2017-14370)
RSA Archer is affected by stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilities via Questionnaire ID (CVE-2017-8016) and Source Asset ID (CVE-2017-14370) fields. An authenticated attacker may potentially exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary HTML in the user’s browser session in the context of the affected RSA Archer application.
CVSSv3 Base Score: 5.4 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
- Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability (CVE-2017-8025)
RSA Archer is affected by an arbitrary file upload vulnerability. A remote unauthenticated attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability to upload malicious files via attachments to arbitrary paths on the web server.
CVSSv3 Base Score: 8.1 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
- Reflected Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-14371 and CVE-2017-14372)
RSA Archer is affected by reflected cross-site scripting vulnerabilities via request URL parameter (CVE-2017-14371) and certain RSA Archer Help pages (CVE-2017-14372). Attackers could potentially exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary HTML in the user’s browser session in the context of the affected RSA Archer application.
CVSSv3 Base Score: 6.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
- Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2017-14369)
RSA Archer is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability. A low privileged RSA Archer user may potentially exploit this vulnerability to elevate their privileges and export certain application records.
CVSSv3 Base Score: 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
Recommendation:
RSA recommends all customers upgrade to the version mentioned below at the earliest opportunity.
- RSA Archer GRC 6.2 Patch 6
Credits:
RSA would like to thank the following individuals for reporting these vulnerabilities:
- CVE-2017-8025 and CVE-2017-14371: Erlend Leiknes, Security Consultant with Mnemonic AS
- CVE-2017-14369: Mohit Rawat
Severity Rating
For an explanation of Severity Ratings, refer to the Archer Vulnerability Disclosure Policy. Archer recommends all customers consider both the base score and any relevant temporal and environmental scores which may impact the potential severity associated with particular security vulnerability.
EOPS Policy
Archer has a defined End of Primary Support policy associated with all major versions. Please refer to the Product Version Life Cycle for additional details.
Legal Information
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