Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2012-176 |
Date Published: | 10 May 2012 |
Severity: | Medium |
Last Updated: | Sunday 28 February, 2016 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2011-1388 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | Multiple code execution vulnerabilities have been reported in the BB FlashBack FBRecorder ActiveX control, a component of IBM Rational Rhapsody. The vulnerabilities are due to improper input validation within several methods. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by enticing the target user to open a specially crafted web page. Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files in the file system as well as execute arbitrary code in the security context of the target user. |
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This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: IBM Protection Violation.
Attack Information: IBM Rational Rhapsody BBFlashBack.Recorder.dll multiple code execution