CVE-2018-1442
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 · uneditedIBM Application Performance Management - Response Time Monitoring Agent (IBM Monitoring 8.1.4) is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery which could allow an attacker to execute malicious and unauthorized actions transmitted from a user that the website trusts. IBM X-Force ID: 139598.
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 confidenceCSRF vulnerability in IBM Application Performance Management Response Time Monitoring Agent (v8.1.4) allows remote attackers to execute unauthorized actions by tricking authenticated users into submitting malicious requests. Attackers exploit the application's trust in authenticated user sessions to perform state-changing operations without proper anti-CSRF validation.
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= 8.1.4CVSS 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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Confirm installed version of IBM MonitoringLocate the IBM Application Performance Management installation directory and check the version manifest or use the product's version inquiry command (typically through the GUI or versioninfo script in the installation directory)Affected if The installed version is exactly 8.1.4 (the only affected version per CVE)
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Determine if Response Time Monitoring Agent web interface is enabledCheck the IBM Monitoring configuration files (typically in the installation directory under conf/ or config/) for the Response Time Monitoring Agent HTTP/HTTPS listener settings. Look for settings related to the RTM agent web port (commonly port 8080 or 8443 by default)Affected if The RTM agent web interface is exposed and accessible on the network
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Inspect HTTP response headers for CSRF protectionMake an authenticated HTTP request to the RTM agent endpoint and inspect the Set-Cookie headers for SameSite attribute and any custom CSRF token headers. Also check if Origin/Referer header validation is performed by observing server responsesAffected if Session cookies lack SameSite attribute and no custom CSRF token headers are returned in responses
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Review application configuration for anti-CSRF token settingsExamine the IBM Monitoring configuration files (typically web.xml, application.properties, or similar) for CSRF protection settings such as 'csrf.enabled', 'csrf.token.enabled', or 'synchronizerToken' configurationAffected if CSRF protection is explicitly disabled or not configured in the application configuration files
You are affected if you are running exactly version 8.1.4 of IBM Monitoring with the Response Time Monitoring Agent web interface enabled and CSRF protection is not configured in the application.
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 dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens (synchronizer token pattern) for all state-changing endpoints, validate Origin/Referer headers server-side, and configure SameSite attributes on session cookies to prevent cross-origin 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.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2018-1442 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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