CVE-2019-4215
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 SmartCloud Analytics 1.3.1 through 1.3.5 could allow a remote attacker to hijack the clicking action of the victim. By persuading a victim to visit a malicious Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to hijack the victim's click actions and possibly launch further attacks against the victim. IBM X-Force ID: 159186.
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 confidenceIBM SmartCloud Analytics 1.3.1-1.3.5 is vulnerable to clickjacking, allowing a remote attacker to overlay the application's UI with invisible or disguised elements. By tricking users into visiting a malicious site, the attacker can hijack the user's click actions to perform unintended operations within the application.
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>= 1.3.1, <= 1.3.5CVSS 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 checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify the installed version of IBM SmartCloud Analytics Log AnalysisAccess the product's about or version information page, typically found in the administration console or by querying the product's service endpoint for version metadataAffected if The installed version is 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, or 1.3.5
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Verify X-Frame-Options HTTP response headerUse a browser developer tool or command-line tool (curl, wget) to make a request to the application's main URL and inspect the response headers for X-Frame-OptionsAffected if The X-Frame-Options header is absent, or present but set to a value other than DENY or SAMEORIGIN (such as ALLOW-FROM arbitrary domain)
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Verify Content-Security-Policy frame-ancestors directiveInspect the HTTP response headers from the application for a Content-Security-Policy header and check if the frame-ancestors directive is definedAffected if The Content-Security-Policy header is absent, or present but does not include the frame-ancestors directive, or frame-ancestors allows external domains
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Test iframe embedabilityCreate a test HTML page with an iframe pointing to the application's URL and attempt to load it in a browser, or use a tool to verify if the page renders within an iframeAffected if The application successfully loads within an iframe, indicating it can be embedded by malicious sites
Your environment is affected if the installed version is between 1.3.1 and 1.3.5 AND the application can be embedded in iframes due to missing or weak X-Frame-Options and Content-Security-Policy frame-ancestors headers.
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 X-Frame-Options: DENY or SAMEORIGIN and Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors directives to prevent the application from being embedded in iframes, thereby blocking clickjacking attacks.
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