CVE-2014-8900
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in IBM UrbanCode Release 6.0.1.6 and earlier, 6.1.0.7 and earlier, and 6.1.1.1 and earlier.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceCross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in IBM UrbanCode Release allows attackers to trick authenticated users into executing unintended actions on the application. The lack of anti-CSRF tokens or proper request validation enables malicious requests to be processed when a logged-in user visits a crafted page.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data<= 6.0.1.6<= 6.1.0.7<= 6.1.1.1CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify installed IBM UrbanCode Deploy versionAccess the web UI, then navigate to Help > About to view the version information, or check the version.txt file in the installation directoryAffected if version cannot be determined or is not visible
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Compare version against affected range 6.0.1.6 and earlierIf the version is 6.0.1.6 or any earlier 6.0.x release, the installation is within the first affected rangeAffected if installed version is 6.0.1.6 or earlier
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Compare version against affected range 6.1.0.7 and earlierIf the version is 6.1.0.7 or any earlier 6.1.0.x release (and not already covered by the 6.0.x range), the installation is within the second affected rangeAffected if installed version is 6.1.0.7 or earlier (but newer than 6.0.1.6)
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Compare version against affected range 6.1.1.1 and earlierIf the version is 6.1.1.1 or any earlier 6.1.1.x release (and not covered by earlier ranges), the installation is within the third affected rangeAffected if installed version is 6.1.1.1 or earlier (but newer than 6.1.0.7)
A user is affected if the installed IBM UrbanCode Deploy version falls within any of these ranges: 6.0.1.6 and earlier, 6.1.0.7 and earlier, or 6.1.1.1 and earlier.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataApply the vendor-supplied patches for the specific affected versions (6.0.1.6 and earlier, 6.1.0.7 and earlier, 6.1.1.1 and earlier) which add proper CSRF token validation to state-changing requests.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2014-8900 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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