CVE-2018-1943

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-04-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-74

Description

IBM Cloud Private 3.1.0 and 3.1.1 is vulnerable to HTTP HOST header injection, caused by improper validation of input. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web page, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary HTTP headers, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking. IBM X-Force ID: 153385.

Affected products

IBM Cloud Private: 3.1.0, 3.1.1

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107828
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/153385
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10871656
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107828
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/153385
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10871656

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