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AA-2009.0123                  AUSCERT Advisory

                             [Win][Linux][AIX]
          IBM WebSphere Partner Gateway: Access Confidential Data
                                26 May 2009
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        AusCERT Advisory Summary
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Product:              IBM WebSphere Partner Gateway
Operating System:     AIX
                      Linux variants
                      Windows
Impact:               Access Confidential Data
Access:               Existing Account
CVE Names:            CVE-2009-0897
Member content until: Tuesday, June 23 2009

OVERVIEW:

      A vulnerability has been identified in IBM WebSphere Partner Gateway,
      (WPG) 6.1.0 before 6.1.0.1 and 6.1.1 before 6.1.1.1.


IMPACT:

      The vendor describes the vulnerability as:

      "IBM WebSphere Partner Gateway could allow a local attacker to obtain 
      sensitive information, caused by insecure use of the schema DB2 instance 
      id to execute the bcgarchive archiver script. An attacker could exploit 
      this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to obtain sensitive 
      information." [1]


MITIGATION:

      Apply the latest fixpack. [2]


REFERENCES:

      [1] IBM WebSphere Partner Gateway bcgarchive information disclosure
          http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/50643

      [2] WPG Instance ID required for executing archiver script
          http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21366016

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If you believe that your computer system has been compromised or attacked in 
any way, we encourage you to let us know by completing the secure National IT 
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        http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=3192

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