IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Insights External Site Reference Vulnerability
CVE-2024-39727 Published on December 25, 2024
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Insights tabnabbing
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineering Insights 7.0.2 and 7.0.3 uses a web link with untrusted references to an external site. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or perform unauthorized actions on the victims web browser.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-39727 can be exploited with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality and integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a tabnabbing Vulnerability?
The web application produces links to untrusted external sites outside of its sphere of control, but it does not properly prevent the external site from modifying security-critical properties of the window.opener object, such as the location property. When a user clicks a link to an external site ("target"), the target="_blank" attribute causes the target site's contents to be opened in a new window or tab, which runs in the same process as the original page. The window.opener object records information about the original page that offered the link. If an attacker can run script on the target page, then they could read or modify certain properties of the window.opener object, including the location property - even if the original and target site are not the same origin. An attacker can modify the location property to automatically redirect the user to a malicious site, e.g. as part of a phishing attack. Since this redirect happens in the original window/tab - which is not necessarily visible, since the browser is focusing the display on the new target page - the user might not notice any suspicious redirection.
CVE-2024-39727 has been classified to as a tabnabbing vulnerability or weakness.
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Affected Versions
IBM Engineering Insights Version 7.0.2, 7.0.3 is affected by CVE-2024-39727Exploit Probability
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