CVE-2018-7682
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 · uneditedMicro Focus Solutions Business Manager versions prior to 11.4 allows a user to invoke SBM RESTful services across domains.
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 · high confidenceMicro Focus Solutions Business Manager versions prior to 11.4 contains a cross-domain vulnerability in its RESTful services implementation, allowing users to invoke SBM RESTful services across different domains. This is likely a missing or misconfigured Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) policy or similar origin validation flaw in the web service layer.
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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< 11.4CVSS 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
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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 Solutions Business Manager versionLocate the installed Solutions Business Manager version - typically found in the product's About section, installation directory, or by querying the system inventory. Common locations include the program files directory or the SBM application administration interface.Affected if The installed version is any release prior to 11.4 (for example, 11.3.x, 11.2.x, earlier versions).
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Confirm RESTful services are exposedDetermine if the SBM RESTful services endpoint is accessible. This is typically at a URL path such as /sbmservices/rest/ or /api/ under the SBM web application root. Check if these endpoints respond to HTTP requests.Affected if RESTful services are enabled and reachable over the network (even on localhost).
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Test CORS response headers on REST endpointsSend an HTTP request to a RESTful service endpoint (such as a GET request to a data service) with an Origin header set to a different domain (for example, http://malicious-site.com). Inspect the response headers for Access-Control-Allow-Origin and Access-Control-Allow-Credentials headers.Affected if The response includes Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * (wildcard) or reflects the arbitrary Origin value back without proper validation, indicating missing origin validation.
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Review CORS configuration if accessibleIf you have administrative access to the SBM configuration, locate the web service or application server configuration files (typically in the SBM configuration directory or the underlying application server settings) and examine CORS-related settings.Affected if No origin validation is configured, or the configuration explicitly allows arbitrary cross-origin requests.
You are affected if Solutions Business Manager version is below 11.4 AND the RESTful services are accessible with improper or missing CORS origin validation.
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 data11.4
Upgrade to Solutions Business Manager version 11.4 or later, which contains the fix for proper cross-domain request validation in RESTful services.
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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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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.
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- 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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