Iris Standards ManagementApplication · Systematicinc

CVE-2019-18926

MEDIUM · 6.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2019-11-12
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
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68/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable No privileges

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 · unedited
Systematic IRIS Standards Management (ISM) v2.1 SP1 89 is vulnerable to unauthenticated reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS). A user input (related to dialog information) is reflected directly in the web page, allowing a malicious user to conduct a Cross Site Scripting attack against users of the application.

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 confidence

Systematic IRIS Standards Management (ISM) v2.1 SP1 89 contains an unauthenticated reflected XSS vulnerability where user-supplied input related to dialog information is directly reflected into the web page output without proper sanitization or encoding, allowing attackers to inject malicious JavaScript.

MitigationImplement server-side input validation and output encoding for all user-controlled parameters, particularly those used in dialog-related functionality. Deploy Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to mitigate XSS execution.

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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
Iris Standards ManagementApplication
Affected:= 2.1

CVSS 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
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/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 checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Verify IRIS Standards Management is installed
    Locate the ISM application installation directory or check for ISM-related services running on the system
    Affected if The application is installed and running on the server
  2. Confirm installed version is 2.1
    Check the application version through the software's about dialog, version file, or installation metadata
    Affected if The installed version is exactly 2.1 (SP1 89)
  3. Verify web interface is accessible
    Attempt to access the ISM web portal via HTTP/HTTPS on the configured port
    Affected if The web interface is exposed and reachable over the network
  4. Check if dialog-related functionality is enabled
    Examine the application's feature configuration or module settings for dialog/dialog information handling
    Affected if Dialog-related functionality is enabled and processes user input through URL parameters
  5. Inspect URL parameters in dialog features
    Review application URLs that contain dialog-related parameters and examine how user input is reflected in responses
    Affected if User-supplied parameters are directly echoed back in HTML without encoding

The environment is affected if Systematic IRIS Standards Management version 2.1 is installed with its web interface accessible and dialog-related features processing user input that gets reflected in responses.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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From vendor data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Implement server-side input validation and output encoding for all user-controlled parameters, particularly those used in dialog-related functionality. Deploy Content Security Policy (CSP) headers to mitigate XSS execution.

Fix this in Iris Standards Management Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation3.0 h
  • Implementation6.0 h
  • Testing4.0 h
  • Review / QA2.0 h
15.0 hours of engineering $2,640
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